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Flashily

Definition: Flashily

Flashily

Adverb

1. In a meretricious manner; "the boat is meretriciously decorated".

2. In a fancy colorful manner; "he dresses rather flamboyantly".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

Synonyms: Flashily

Synonyms: flamboyantly (adv), meretriciously (adv), showily (adv). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Flashily

English words defined with "flashily": snazzy. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Flashily

"Flashily" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Flashily" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adverb (general)100%3202,518

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Expressions: Flashily

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

flashily

7
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Flashily

Language Translations for "flashily"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

pa gusto (tasteless), në dukje (apparently, seeming). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏وامض (flickering), ‏زاه (bright, gay, glad, glaring, radiant, shining, vivid). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

безвкусно (flavorless, flavourless), по безвкусен начин. (various references)

   

Czech

  

křiklavì. (various references)

   

French

  

tape-à-l'œil (flashy), tapageur (flamboyantly, flashy). (various references)

   

German

  

auffällige. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

בהתהדרות. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

rikítóan (flamboyantly), cifrán (gaudily). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ashilyflay.(various references)

   

Russian 

  

кричаще (loudly), безвкусно (tastelessly). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

con ostentación (showily). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

parlak (aglow, ardent, bright, brightly, brilliant, clear, dazzling, effulgent, flamboyant, flaming, flaring, flashy, fulgent, fulgurant, glace, glittering, glossy, glowing, gorgeous, illuminant, incandescent, irradiant, jazzy, lambent, live, lively, loud, lucent, luminescent, luminous, lustrous, meteoric, oriental, polished, pyrotechnic, pyrotechnical, radiant, refulgent, resplendent, sheeny, shining, shiny, sleek, sparkling, splendent, splendid, star, staring, starry, sunny, vivid), gösterişli (artsy, Arty, arty-crafty, baronial, bombastic, chichi, dashing, declamatory, dressy, flamboyant, flash, flashy, flatulent, Flossy, garish, gingerbread, glossy, meretricious, Nobby, ostentatious, polished, posh, showy, sleek, smart, spectacular, splendent, sporty, swanky, swish, thoroughbred, viewy), çarpıcı biçimde. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

крикливо, напоказ (externally, for effect). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Flashily

Misspellings

"Flashily" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Alashiya, Fadhil, Fadhils, flashey, flashlit, Fluhli, Foleshill, folksily. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Flashily"

Words rhyming with "flashily" (pronounced 'Flash"i*ly'): Abandonedly, Abasedly, Abashedly, Abhorrently, Abidingly, Abjectly, Abnormally, Abominably, Aboriginally, Abortively, Abruptly, Absently, Absolutely, Absorbedly, Abstinently, Abstractedly, Abstractively, Abstractly, Abstrusely, Absurdly, Abundantly, Abusively, Abysmally, Academically, Accentually, Acceptably, Acceptedly, Accessarily, Accessibly, Accessorily, Accidentally, Accommodately, Accordantly, Accordingly, Accountably, Accurately, Accusatively, Accusatorially, Accusingly, Accustomably, Accustomarily, Achromatically, Acidly, Acknowledgedly, Acoustically, Acquiescently, Acquisitively, Acridly, Acrimoniously, Acrocephaly. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Flashily

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-f-h-i-l-l-s-y"

-2 letters: flails, flashy, salify.

-3 letters: alifs, fails, falls, fills, filly, fishy, flail, flash, flays, hafis, hails, halls, hills, hilly, hylas, sally, shall, shaly, shill, shily, silly, slily, yills.

-4 letters: ails, alif, alls, ally, ashy, fail, fall, fash, fays, fila, fill, fils, fish, flay, hail, half, hall, hays, hila, hill, hyla, ills, illy, lash, lays.

 Words containing the letters "a-f-h-i-l-l-s-y"
 

+3 letters: faithlessly.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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