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Definition: Flashy |
FlashyAdjective1. Tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments". 2. (used especially of clothes) marked by conspicuous display. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "flashy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1601. (references) |
Synonyms: FlashySynonyms: brassy (adj), cheap (adj), flash (adj), garish (adj), gaudy (adj), gimcrack (adj), jazzy (adj), loud (adj), meretricious (adj), showy (adj), sporty (adj), tacky (adj), tatty (adj), tawdry (adj), trashy (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Ornament | Showy, flashy; gaudy; (vulgar); garish, gairish; gorgeous. |
Adjective: ornament; Verb: beautified; ornate, florid, rich, flowery; euphuistic, euphemistic; sonorous; high-sounding, big-sounding; inflated, swelling, tumid; turgid, turgescent; pedantic, pompous, stilted; orotund; high flown, high flowing; sententious, rhetorical, declamatory; grandiose; grandiloquent, magniloquent, altiloquent; sesquipedal, sesquipedalian; Johnsonian, mouthy; bombastic; fustian; frothy, flashy, flaming. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Flashy |
| English words defined with "flashy": brassy ♦ cheap ♦ Dudder ♦ flash ♦ garish, gaudy, gimcrack ♦ loud ♦ meretricious ♦ tacky, tart up, tatty, tawdry, townee, trashy ♦ zoot suit. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "flashy": Flowered Robes ♦ Loud Patterns ♦ pnambic ♦ Rococo Jewellery ♦ spiffy. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Hey, you never flashy thingied me, right (Men In Black ; writing credit: Ed Solomon) A little too flashy, a little cheesy for my tastes (Oz; writing credit: Pavel Srut) | |
Lyrics | And I just love your flashy ways (Hypnotize; performing artist: The Notorious B.I.G.) | |
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| Domain | Title |
Books | |
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| Play | Caption |
 | A flashy solo clarinet typical of a New Orleans clarinet in the 1910-1920's. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Ukraine | Ukrainians, cautious and cynical by nature, are skeptical of flashy advertisements, so "word of mouth" and establishing a "street reputation" for one's product or service are critical for success in this developing market. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Flashy" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Flashy" is used about 133 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 133 | 27,614 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "flashy": flashy gaudy jazzy showy snazzy sporty ♦ flashy stream. Additional references. | |
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| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
flashy | 6 |
background flashy | 5 |
flashy trash | 4 |
car flashy | 4 |
boxer fawn flashy | 3 |
flashy gown | 2 |
flasher flashy | 2 |
bastard.com flashy | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "flashy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | flakërues (flamboyant, flaming, flaring, lambent), që bie shumë në sy, i shkrepshëm, i çastit (extemporary, instant, instantaneous, momentary, offhand, offhanded). (various references) | |
Arabic | مبهرج (chichi, florid, garish, gaudy, showy, tawdry, tinsel), بهرجي. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | ярък (blazing, bright, clear, flaming, garish, gaudy, gay, glaring, glowing, gutty, harsh, high-colored, high-coloured, hot, jazz, jazzy, live, loud, lucid, lurid, noisy, picturesque, refulgent, relucent, round, showy, staring, violent, vivid, zizzi), с външен блясък (showy), крещящ (blatant, clamant, dashing, flamboyant, flaring, garish, glaring, howling, jazz, loud, meretricious, noisy, obvious, screaming, screamy, showy, sporty, tinsel, trumpery, vociferous, zizzi), наперен (jaunty, perky, prancing, roistering, swanky). (various references) | |
Chinese | 华丽 (Ornate, showy). (various references) | |
Czech | blýskavý (shining). (various references) | |
Danish | flod med hurtigt stigende vandspejl (flashy stream). (various references) | |
Dutch | snelwassende rivier (flashy stream). (various references) | |
Finnish | nopeasti tulviva joki (flashy stream). (various references) | |
French | tape-à-l'œil (flashily), tapageur (flamboyantly, flashily). (various references) | |
German | auffällig (conspicuous). (various references) | |
Greek | φανταχτερόσ (fancy, flamboyant, garish, gaudy, jazzy, ornate, tawdry), επιδεικτικόσ (dashing, flamboyant, garish, meretricious, ostentatious, show off, showy, sporty, swanky), λουσάτος (dressy, foppish, posh). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מתהדר (pompous), ראותני (exhibitionistic, flamboyant, ostentatious, showy, spectacular), צעקני (boisterous, clamorous, flamboyant, garish, noisy, showy, staring, vociferous). (various references) | |
Hungarian | mutatós (showy, doggish, dressy), csiricsáré (gingerbread, showy, tacky, tawdry). (various references) | |
Indonesian | menyilaukan (dazzle, glaring), mencolok (glaring, striking). (various references) | |
Italian | vistoso (blatant, catchy, considerable, dashing, garish, gaudy, gorgeous, important, large, loud, meretricious, noisy, showy, tawdry, trumpery). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 派手 (gaudy, gay, loud, showy). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | はで (gaudy, gay, loud, showy). (various references) | |
Manx | ornaidagh (colourful, decorative, flowery, ornate), falleayssagh (coruscant), bashtallagh (bombastic). (various references) | |
Norwegian | prangende, glorete (gaudy). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ashyflay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | flamejante (ablaze, decorated, flamboyant), vistoso (brave, clipping, dressy, faked, flaring, flash, gallant, garish, goodly, noisy, off-key, showy, spicy, theatrical, viewy), superficial (aboveground, above-ground, amateurish, flimsy, flippant, frothy, lip-deep, perfunctory, shallow, sketchy, skin-deep, superficial, trivial), espalhafatoso (bustling, fussy, garish, gaudy, loud, noisy, staring, tawdry), cintilante (agleam, brisk, flaring, lambent, shining, shiny, sparkling), chamativo (showy). (various references) | |
Romanian | strigãtor (blatant, crying, scandalous), strãlucitor (ablaze, bright, brilliant, effulgent, flaming, flash, flashing, fresh, fulgent, gorgeous, irradiant, luminous, luminously, radiant, refulgent, relucent, resplendent, shining, shiny, splendid, starry, vivid), sclipitor (bright, brilliant, brilliantly, flaming, fulgent, gleaming, shining), bãtãtor la ochi (banner, flash, flaunty, garish, glaring, rampageous, self evident, staring, tinsel), ţipãtor (blatant, crude, crying, flash, flaunty, garish, gaudy, glaring, gross, harsh, hot, jazzily, loud, noisy, painty, peeper, screaming, showy, shrill, staring, strident, tawdry, tinsel, violent). (various references) | |
Russian | кричащий (gaudy). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | neukusan (distasteful, insipid, tasteless, unappetizing, unpalatable, unsavory, unsavoury), drečeći (jazzy). (various references) | |
Spanish | relumbrante, ostentoso (ostentatious), de relumbrón (tinsel, trumpery), cursi (affected, camp, corny, genteel, loud, posh, pretentious, showy, tacky, tawdry). (various references) | |
Swedish | ytlig (flimsy, shallow, superfical, superficial), vräkig (extravagant, flash, flaunty, raffish), prålig (flamboyant, garish, gaudy, meretricious, showy), billig (cheap, inexpensive). (various references) | |
Turkish | parlak (aglow, ardent, bright, brightly, brilliant, clear, dazzling, effulgent, flamboyant, flaming, flaring, flashily, 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, flashily, flatulent, Flossy, garish, gingerbread, glossy, meretricious, Nobby, ostentatious, polished, posh, showy, sleek, smart, spectacular, splendent, sporty, swanky, swish, thoroughbred, viewy), çarpıcı (blazing, conspicuous, devastating, dramatic, intense, salient, showy, striking, stunning). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | рвучкий (catchy, dashing), короткочасний (horary, momentary, short), показний (affected, catchpenny, conspicuous, imposing, meretricious, orchidaceous, ostensible, ostensive, ostentatious, portly, presentable, pretentious, showy, specious, sporty, stagey, stagy). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sặc sỡ thích chưng diện, loè loẹt (catchpenny, flash, garish, gaudy, gingerbread, rococo, showy, tawdry, tinty), hào nhoáng (gingerbread, glossy, spicy, tawdry). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "flashy": unflashy. (additional references) | |
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"Flashy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Alashiya, blashie, Falaschi, Falasha, falsch, falsy, Fathy, flahs, flahsh, Flasby, flashe, flashey, flasky, fleash, flshy, Glashtyn, Lleshi, plashy. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "flashy" (pronounced fla"shē) |
| 4 | -l a" sh ē | splashy. |
| 3 | -a" sh ē | ashy, trashy. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-f-h-l-s-y" | |
-1 letter: flash, flays, hylas, shaly. | |
-2 letters: ashy, fash, fays, flay, half, hays, hyla, lash, lays, shay, slay. | |
-3 letters: als, ash, ays, fas, fay, fly, has, hay, las, lay, sal, say, sha, shy, sly, yah. | |
-4 letters: ah, al, as, ay, fa, ha, la, sh, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-f-h-l-s-y" | |
+1 letter: shadfly. | |
+2 letters: flashily, haylofts, ladyfish, oafishly, unflashy. | |
+3 letters: bashfully, fairishly, hayfields, platyfish, raffishly. | |
+4 letters: dwarfishly, freakishly, ghastfully, ladyfishes, shamefully. | |
+5 letters: faithlessly, fashionably, fishability, flycatchers, platyfishes. | |
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