Showy

Definition: Showy

Showy

Adjective

1. Marked by conspicuous display; "a cheap showy rhinestone bracelet"; "a splashy half-page ad".

2. Elaborately or excessively ornamented; "flamboyant handwriting"; "the senator's florid speech".

3. Marked by extravagant display.

4. (used especially of clothes) marked by conspicuous display.

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

Date "showy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)

Note: Showy \Show"y\, adjective. [Comparative Showier; superlative Showiest.]. (references)

Synonyms: Showy

Beauty

Rich, superb, magnificent, grand, fine, sublime, showy, specious.

Ornament

Showy, flashy; gaudy; (vulgar); garish, gairish; gorgeous.

Ostentation

Adjective: ostentatious, showy, dashing, pretentious; janty, jaunty; grand, pompous, palatial; high-sounding; turgid; (big-sounding); gairish, garish; gaudy, gaudy as a butterfly, gaudy as a tulip; flaunting, flashing, flaming, glittering; gay; (ornate).

Crosswords: Showy

Books

• Showy Science: Exciting Hands-On Activities That Explore the World Around Us (reference)

• Showy Shades (reference)

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Tropical flowers like these orchids and anthuriums bring premium prices at nurseries and floral shops around the world. But these beauties are being attacked by insects. ARS scientists are looking for environmentally friendly ways to protect the showy plants. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

Alvord Desert WSA, Coyote Lake Sand Dunes and a Showy Penstamen (sp?). (2-74). Credit: Scott Moore.

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The latter was by far the most showy and gallant figure, so far as apparel went, anywhere to be seen among the multitude

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Expressions using "showy": flashy gaudy jazzy showy snazzy sporty ♦ showy daisy ♦ showy goldenrod ♦ showy lady slipper ♦ showy milkweed ♦ showy orchis ♦ showy sunflower. Additional references.

Albanian

tërheqës (absorbing, absorptive, adorable, alluring, appealing, attractable, attractive, catchy, charismatic, comely, cunning, cute, drawer, dreamy, engaging, engrossing, enticing, fetching, interesting, inviting, jolly, likable, likeable, nice, personable, pleasing, pretty, sightly, winsome), që bie në sy (flaring, in evidence, noticeable). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مبهرج (chichi, flashy, florid, garish, gaudy, tawdry, tinsel), ‏لامع (blazing, bright, brilliant, burnished, dazzling, flamboyant, flashing, glazed, gleaming, glimmering, glistering, glittering, glossed, glossy, golden, high, lambent, lucid, lustrous, outstanding, polished, radiant, refulgent, resplendent, sheen, shining, shiny, sleek, slick, sparkle, sparkling, star, staring), ‏تفاخري (ostentatious, pointed), ‏صارخ (blatant, crying, flamboyant, fortissimo, garish, gaudy, jarring, loud, lurid, noisy, outrageous, rank, sharp, staring, trumpery, violent), ‏رائع (admirable, bonny, brag, brave, conspicuous, dazzling, ducks, ducky, effective, elegant, emphatic, entrancing, exceptional, exquisite, extraordinary, fabulous, felicitous, fine, glorious, gorgeous, grand, heavenly, in apple-pie order, irresistible, lovely, magnificent, marvellous, marvelous, mighty, miraculous, noteworthy, out of this world, outstanding, palmy, picturesque, portentous, precious, prestigious, rattling, recherche, remarkable, ripening, ripping, sensational, sightly, signal, singular, smash, smashing, solid, some, spanking, sparkling, splendid, stunning, stupendous, super, superb, swell, terrific, topping, tremendous, uncommon, wonder, wonderful, wondrous). (various references)

Bulgarian 

ярък (blazing, bright, clear, flaming, flashy, garish, gaudy, gay, glaring, glowing, gutty, harsh, high-colored, high-coloured, hot, jazz, jazzy, live, loud, lucid, lurid, noisy, picturesque, refulgent, relucent, round, staring, violent, vivid, zizzi), с външен блясък (flashy), крещящ (blatant, clamant, dashing, flamboyant, flaring, flashy, garish, glaring, howling, jazz, loud, meretricious, noisy, obvious, screaming, screamy, sporty, tinsel, trumpery, vociferous, zizzi), външен (adventitious, adventive, exterior, external, extraneous, extrinsic, foreign, formal, inorganic, ostentatious, outdoor, outer, out-of-door, outside, outward, over, overall, oversea, overseas, surface), ефектен (effective, glamorous, glamourous, spectacular, swanky), претенциозен (bumptious, choosy, elaborate, fanciful, fastidious, gingerly, high-toned, overblown, pretentious, squeamish, studied, swanky), показен (ostensible, ostentatious, show, specious, theatrical, trumpery), параден (parade), панаирджийски (catchpenny). (various references)

Chinese 

华丽 (flashy, Ornate). (various references)

Czech

nápadný (conspicuous, garish, gaudy, glaring, jazzy, loud, noticeable, ostentatious, outstanding, prominent, remarkable, spectacular, sporty, striking). (various references)

Farsi 

پرجلوه (Gaily, Loud, Pretentious, Resplendent), زرق وبرق دار (Flamboyant, Gaudy, Gorgeous, Loud, Tawdry, Tinsel), خوش نما (Glossy, Pretty), خودفروش (Ostentatious, Supercilious), خودنما (Airy, Blatant, Cocky, Jaunty, Ostentatious, Perky, Priggish). (various references)

Finnish

pramea (ostentatious), loistelias (gorgeous, grand, luxurious, resplendent, splendid, sumptuous), korea (fine, garish). (various references)

French

voyant, tape-� -l'�"il, qui attire l'attention, prétentieux, ostentatoire, frimeur (show off), criard (shrill), éclatant (shining). (various references)

German

prächtig (bonny, famously, gallant, glorious, gorgeous, gorgeously, magnificent, magnificently, marvelous, noble, nobly, resplendent, rich, splendid, splendorous, sumptuous, sumptuously). (various references)

Greek 

επιδεικτικόσ (dashing, flamboyant, flashy, garish, meretricious, ostentatious, show off, sporty, swanky), επιδεικτικός (arty, ostentatious, susceptible). (various references)

Hebrew 

מצועצע (flamboyant, florid, flowery, ornamented, ornate), ראות� י (exhibitionistic, flamboyant, flashy, ostentatious, spectacular), צעק� י (boisterous, clamorous, flamboyant, flashy, garish, noisy, staring, vociferous). (various references)

Hungarian

mutatós (doggish, dressy, flash, flashly, flashy, have a good effect, spectacular), tetszetős (borax, claptrap, fair, good, gracious, nice-looking, pellucid), rikító (flamboyant, flashy, flaunting, flaunty, garish, gaudy, hot, jazzy, lurid, sporty), kirívó (flagrant, ostentatious, out of place), feltűnő (bodacious, bold, conspicuous, flashy, flourish, loud, noisy, obtrusive, prominent, sensational, sporty, upfront), csiricsáré (flash, flashy, gimcrack, gingerbread, tacky, tawdry). (various references)

Italian

sgargiante (gaudy, loud), vistoso (blatant, catchy, considerable, dashing, flashy, garish, gaudy, gorgeous, important, large, loud, meretricious, noisy, tawdry, trumpery), pomposo (big, bombastic, high-flown, pompous, stilted), pacchiano (garish, tawdry), ostentato (ostentatious), appariscente (blatant, striking, trumpery). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

花やか (brilliant, florid, gay, gorgeous), 麗麗しい (gaudy, ostentatious), 麗々しい (gaudy, ostentatious), 華やか (brilliant, florid, gay, gorgeous), 物物しい (imposing, overdone), 派手 (flashy, gaudy, gay, loud), 伊�" (dandyism, gallantry, vainglorious), あか抜ける (excessive, gaudy, Happy New Year, skips-most-stations Jouetsu-line shinkansen, to refine, vicious). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

いたて (dandyism, gallantry, vainglorious), れいれいしい (gaudy, ostentatious), あくどい (excessive, gaudy, vicious), ものものしい (imposing, overdone), はなやか (brilliant, florid, gay, gorgeous), はで (flashy, gaudy, gay, loud), � て (dandyism, gallantry, vainglorious). (various references)

Korean 

�"� �한 (Brilliant, gorgeous, Ornate, splendid, sumptuous). (various references)

Manx

taishbynagh (apocalyptic, revealing), jesheenagh (cosmetic, decorative, dressy, ornamental, ornate, set off), erreaytagh. (various references)

Pig Latin

owyshay.(various references)

Portuguese

só de aparato, vistoso (brave, clipping, dressy, faked, flaring, flash, flashy, gallant, garish, goodly, noisy, off-key, spicy, theatrical, viewy), que dá na vista (ripping, staring), pretensioso (assuming, assumptive, bounder, bumptious, chesty, cocksure, cocksy, cocky, conceited, donnish, exquisite, goody, gooey, hoity-toity, la-di-da, orotund, pretentious, prig, priggish, select, snob, snooty, square-toed, swanky), pomposo (budge, consequential, formal, gallant, garish, grandiose, lofty, measured, orotund, ostentatious, pompous, puffed-up, solemn, sounding, stately, stiff, tumid), de ostentação, chamativo (flashy). (various references)

Romanian

fastuos (gorgeous, pompous, sumptuous), care place (pleasing), aspectuos (engaging, neat), arãtos (bonny, brave, dashing, goodly, handsome, personable, proper), ţipãtor (blatant, crude, crying, flash, flashy, flaunty, garish, gaudy, glaring, gross, harsh, hot, jazzily, loud, noisy, painty, peeper, screaming, shrill, staring, strident, tawdry, tinsel, violent). (various references)

Russian 

яркий (bright, clear, colorable, colorful, colourful, distinct, flare, gay, glaring, glowing, lucid, pictorial, picturesque, plain, psychedelic, shiny, sinewy, sunbright, vivid, zippy), эффектный (effective, glamor, glamorous, glamour, glamourous, spectacular, viewy), пышный (baronial, costly, flamboyant, gingerbread, high-sounding, luxuriant, opulent, pompous, purple, voluptuous). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

upadljiv (broad, conspicuous, marked, noticeable, prominent, striking, tacky), razmetljiv (braggart, bragging, brassy, jaunty, ostentatious, rodomontade, sporty, swank, thrasonical), raskošan (lavish, luxuriant, luxurious, sumptuary, sumptuous). (various references)

Spanish

vistoso (colorful, colourful, flamboyant, gay, gorgeous, ornate), ostentoso (flashy, gaudy, grandiose, ostentatious, swanky, swashing), llamativo (aggressive, arresting, blatant, catchpenny, effective, flamboyant, garish, gaudy, jazzy, obtrusive, screaming, staring, startling, striking), cursi (affected, camp, corny, flashy, genteel, loud, posh, pretentious, tacky, tawdry), aparatoso (ostentatious, spectacular). (various references)

Swedish

prålig (flamboyant, flash, flashy, fussy, garish, gaudy, meretricious, raffish, sporty, tawdry). (various references)

Turkish

tantanalı (grandiose, orotund, pompous, puffy, rotund, sonorous, sounding), havalı (airy, dashing, flash, flatulent, hot air, jaunty, La-di-da, la-di-dah, nifty, Nobby, ostentatious, pneumatic, posh, rakish, show off, stylish, swagger, swanky, swell, swish, tonish), gösterişli (artsy, Arty, arty-crafty, baronial, bombastic, chichi, dashing, declamatory, dressy, flamboyant, flash, flashily, flashy, flatulent, Flossy, garish, gingerbread, glossy, meretricious, Nobby, ostentatious, polished, posh, sleek, smart, spectacular, splendent, sporty, swanky, swish, thoroughbred, viewy), gösterişçi (faker, ham, pretentious, raffish, show off, swanky), fiyakalı (la-di-dah, Nobby, ostentatious, swaggering), cafcaflı (garish, meretricious, pompous), şatafatlı (candied, de luxe, gaudy, high-flown, ornate, pompous, sounding, tumid), çarpıcı (blazing, conspicuous, devastating, dramatic, flashy, intense, salient, striking, stunning). (various references)

Ukrainian

кричущий (calling, clamant, crying, howling, loud, noisy, rampageous), ефектний (chic, dramatic, effective, glamorous, glamourous, spectacular, telling), блискучий (brilliant, coruscating, crackajack, crackerjack, crackling, glossy, incandescent, lambent, luminous, lustrous, nitid, oriental, polished, quicksilver, radiant, resplendent, sensational, shining, signal, sparkling, splendent, splendid), показний (affected, catchpenny, conspicuous, flashy, imposing, meretricious, orchidaceous, ostensible, ostensive, ostentatious, portly, presentable, pretentious, specious, sporty, stagey, stagy). (various references)

Vietnamese 

phô trương (exhibitory, flauntingly, flaunty, grandiose, ostentatious, swanky), loè loẹt (catchpenny, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gingerbread, rococo, tawdry, tinty). (various references)

ambitiosa, Dryandra formosa, speciosa, speciosae, speciosam, speciosas, speciosi, speciosior, speciosique, speciosis, speciosissima, speciosissimam, speciosissimas, speciositas, specioso, speciosum, speciosus. (various references)

Derivations

Words ending with "showy": unshowy. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Showy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: chowy, Rhonwy, shawi, Shewry, shoaw, shody, shony, shotyk, showe, showh, showl, showq, shoy, shoyu, Shwob, shwoo, smowy, sowy, Stoway, stowey, stowy. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: hows, hoys, show, whys, yows.

-2 letters: how, hoy, ohs, shy, sow, soy, who, why, wos, yow.

-3 letters: ho, oh, os, ow, oy, sh, so, wo, yo.

+2 letters: haymows, shadowy, showery, showily, unshowy.

+3 letters: dowdyish, owlishly, rowdyish.

+4 letters: honeydews, seaworthy, shadowily, shallowly, showbizzy, wolfishly, yellowish.

+5 letters: bawdyhouse, clownishly, housewifey, newsworthy, shantytown, throwaways, womanishly.