[W/K] :: showy

  Showy \Show"y\, a. [Compar. Showier; superl. Showiest.]
     Making a show; attracting attention; presenting a marked
     appearance; ostentatious; gay; gaudy.
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           A present of everything that was rich and showy.
                                                    --Addison.
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     Syn: Splendid; gay; gaudy; gorgeous; fine; magnificent;
          grand; stately; sumptuous; pompous.
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  showy
       adj 1: marked by conspicuous display; "a cheap showy rhinestone
              bracelet"; "a splashy half-page ad" [syn: splashy]
       2: elaborately or excessively ornamented; "flamboyant
          handwriting"; "the senator's florid speech" [syn: aureate,
           florid, flamboyant]
       3: marked by extravagant display
       4: (used especially of clothes) marked by conspicuous display
          [syn: flashy, gaudy, jazzy, sporty]
       [also: showiest, showier]

  90 Moby Thesaurus words for "showy":
     Byzantine, Gongoresque, Johnsonian, affected, arabesque, baroque,
     bedizened, big-sounding, brave, bravura, braw, chichi, conspicuous,
     convoluted, daring, dashing, declamatory, dressy, elaborate,
     elevated, euphuistic, exhibitionistic, fancy, flamboyant, flaming,
     flashing, flashy, flaunting, florid, frilly, frothy, fulsome,
     fussy, gallant, garish, gaudy, gay, glittering, gorgeous,
     grandiloquent, grandiose, grandisonant, high-flowing, high-flown,
     high-flying, high-sounding, highfalutin, inkhorn, intricate,
     jaunty, jazzy, labyrinthine, lexiphanic, lofty, lurid, luxurious,
     magniloquent, meretricious, opulent, ornate, orotund, ostentatious,
     overdone, overelaborate, overinvolved, overwrought, peacockish,
     peacocky, pedantic, pompous, pretentious, rakish, resplendent,
     rhetorical, rococo, sensational, sensationalistic, sententious,
     show-off, snazzy, sonorous, splashy, splurgy, sporty, stilted,
     sumptuous, swank, tall, tawdry, tortuous