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flashy

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of flashy

1 attractively eye-catching in style

  • I bought a flashy new car as soon as I got my first paycheck
Synonyms of flashy

jazzy, pizzazzy (or pizazzy), snazzy, splashy
Words Related to flashy

cool, fresh [slang], hip, neat

à la mode (also a la mode), chic, chichi

dapper, dashing, natty, sharp, smart, snappy, spruce

faddish, fashionable, happening, in, modish, stylish, swish, trendy

custom, designer

showy, striking

flamboyant, garish, gaudy, glittery, glitzy, jaunty, loud, ostentatious, raffish, rakish, swank (or swanky), wild
Near Antonyms of flashy

modest, plain, quiet, simple, unadorned

conservative, muted, restrained, subdued, toned-down, understated, unpretentious

styleless, unfashionable, unstylish

démodé, old-fashioned, outmoded, out-of-date, passé

2 excessively showy

  • wore flashy rings on almost all the fingers of his left hand
Synonyms of flashy

flamboyant, flaring, garish, gaudy, glitzy, loud, noisy, ostentatious, razzle-dazzle, splashy, swank (or swanky)
Words Related to flashy

excessive, extravagant, fulsome, hammy, overdone, over-the-top, overwrought

pretentious

baroque, bedizened, ornate

fancy, snazzy, zooty

blaring, bright, florid, glaring, glittery, overbright, spectacular

graceless, inelegant, lurid, tacky, tasteless, tawdry, tinselly, vulgar
Near Antonyms of flashy

appropriate, fitting, proper

inconspicuous, muted, restrained, subdued, toned (down), unobtrusive

elegant, graceful, tasteful

modest, plain, simple, unpretentious
Antonyms of flashy

conservative, quiet, understated, unflamboyant, unflashy

Synonym Discussion of flashy

gaudy, tawdry, garish, flashy, meretricious mean vulgarly or cheaply showy. gaudy implies a tasteless use of overly bright, often clashing colors or excessive ornamentation.
    • circus performers in gaudy costumes
tawdry applies to what is at once gaudy and cheap and sleazy.
    • tawdry saloons
garish describes what is distressingly or offensively bright.
    • garish neon signs
flashy implies an effect of brilliance quickly and easily seen to be shallow or vulgar.
    • a flashy nightclub act
meretricious stresses falsity and may describe a tawdry show that beckons with a false allure or promise.
    • a meretricious wasteland of casinos and bars

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