SHOWSTOPPER Synonyms: 22 Similar and Opposite Words

showstopper

noun

ˈshō-ˌstä-pər

Definition of showstopper

as in doll

a physically attractive person at the modeling agency everyone was a showstopper

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Recent Examples of showstopper Picking the right mask for your hair type and concern makes all the difference between a half-hearted quick fix and a true showstopper transformation. — Anya Meyerowitz, Glamour, 2 Aug. 2026 But the showstoppers are the ones that take advantage of Marea’s ocean views. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 July 2026 While its exterior bones are quite impressive, its interiors are the real showstopper here. — Mae Hamilton, Travel + Leisure, 25 July 2026 This slab pie is your summer showstopper, with cheesy pastry, a generous slick of Dijon mayonnaise, and fat slices of heirloom tomatoes peeking out of a lattice top. — Ginger Crichton, Midwest Living, 18 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for showstopper

Recent Examples of Synonyms for showstopper

Noun

Gerber’s The Shards costars Homer Gere and Hayes Warner pressed the model for more information about the doll as part of the game, which requires actors to discern whether their costars are sharing true or false stories.

— Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Sep. 2026
As a child, Madix would put on shows for her pug, Ming, and a doll of Fievel, the mouse from An American Tail.

— Anna Peele, Vanity Fair, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of doll

Noun

Admired for his seriousness and for his eagerness to learn, as well as for his movie-star face and sturdy body, de Kooning was a looker in a city full of lookers.

— Hilton Als, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2026
The analysis examined how many lookers pursued both living options across 50 large metropolitan areas, as well as a national benchmark.

— Jonathan Lansner, Oc Register, 4 May 2026

Definition of looker

Noun

Simon Adingra opened the scoring for Sunderland here, after a lovely through ball from their best player this season, Granit Xhaka.

— Michael Cox, New York Times, 25 May 2026
But the 27-year-old Alabama man didn’t see through on that promise and ended up staying in Fiji and hooking up with other lovelies.

— Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 27 Oct. 2025

Definition of lovely

Noun

The beauty of the property itself affords endless opportunities to stop and admire, and provide context for the great artist's oeuvre.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Sep. 2026
The Historic Festival brings together a diverse field of historic racing machines for a Labor Day Weekend celebration of speed, sound and beauty with classes that range from pre-war open-wheel cars to the sports and formula cars of the postwar era.

— Mark Maglio, Hartford Courant, 6 Sep. 2026

Definition of beauty

Noun

Wrestler Roddy Piper went off the mat for his first major acting gig as a Los Angeles guy who picks up those shades and gets eyefuls of aliens amongst him — all of whom hold the real power in our corrupt world.

— Randy Myers, Mercury News, 8 June 2026
One memorable member of the Dunder Mifflin crew tells EW that viewers *do not* need to get an eyeful of him for one specific reason.

— Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 25 May 2026

Definition of eyeful

Noun

If lily pollen or another substance is on a cat’s coat, Wahlen recommends wiping it away or washing the area with diluted dish soap to prevent ingestion during grooming.

— Lauren Paige Richeson, USA Today, 2 Sep. 2026
The 400-odd recipes include savory pies of all stripes, a mind-boggling array of uses for many styles of cheese, and boundless vegetable dishes.

— Scott Hocker, TheWeek, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of dish

Noun

In the twenty-tens, modern investigations made clear that the work was in danger of becoming distorted by this display, which would need to be redesigned.

— John Phipps, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2026
Ting said that Votee trained its model for around $250,000—not a small amount but still significantly less than the tens of billions of dollars spent by AI developers like Anthropic and OpenAI.

— Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 4 Sep. 2026