What does flashy mean?

Definitions for flashy
ˈflæʃ iflashy

This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word flashy.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashyadjective

    tastelessly showy

    "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments"

  2. flashy, gaudy, jazzy, showy, sportyadjective

    (used especially of clothes) marked by conspicuous display

Wiktionary

  1. flashyadjective

    Showy; visually impressive, attention-getting, or appealing.

    The dancers wore flashy costumes featuring shiny sequins in many vibrant colors.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Flashyadjective

    Etymology: from flash.

    Flashy wits cannot fathom the whole extent of a large discourse. Kenelm Digby, on the Soul, Dedicat.

    When they list, their lean and flashy songs
    Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw. John Milton.

    This mean conceit, this darling mystery,
    Which thou think’st nothing, friend! thou shalt not buy;
    Nor will I change for all the fleshy wit. John Dryden, Pers. Sat.

    Stephen Skinner.

    Distilled books are, like common distilled waters, flashy things. Francis Bacon, Essay 51.

    The tastes that most offend in fruits, herbs and roots, are bitter, harsh, sour, waterish or flashy. Francis Bacon, Nat. History.

Wikipedia

  1. Flashy

    Flashy is the title of the fifth album by Detroit rock band Electric Six. The album was accompanied by a music video for track "Formula 409" which appeared online on July 30, 2008. A claymation video for the track 'Making Progress' was also released.

ChatGPT

  1. flashy

    Flashy refers to something or someone that is highly noticeable because it is ostentatious, extravagant, showy, or bright. It often suggests something that is designed to impress in a superficial, gaudy, or over-the-top manner.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Flashyadjective

    dazzling for a moment; making a momentary show of brilliancy; transitorily bright

  2. Flashyadjective

    fiery; vehement; impetuous

  3. Flashyadjective

    showy; gay; gaudy; as, a flashy dress

  4. Flashyadjective

    without taste or spirit

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of flashy in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of flashy in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of flashy in a Sentence

  1. Taylor Budowich:

    Their flashy ads won’t give children years of their lives and education back, it won’t make Michigan families forget about their draconian lockdowns and closures, and it won’t stop voters from electing Tudor Dixon on Nov. 8th.

  2. Kamran Ansari:

    The company is not flashy and doesn't try to generate a lot of buzz or press for every little thing it does, it doesn't get some of the notoriety, but I think the term that comes to mind is : built to last.

  3. Ben Wikler:

    Gov. Evers isn’t flashy, and he knows what people want isn’t ultimately flash. They want their highways repaired and their schools to teach their kids and their phones not to vibrate at 5 in the morning with something that’s going to stop them from going back to sleep, president Biden has the same thing going for him: decency and a sense of steady leadership rather than chaos and any kind of ideology that might be proceeded by the word ‘ultra.’.

  4. Sam Fiorani:

    Buyers of commercial vans want reliability and not necessarily a flashy brand name, the reduced maintenance and fuel use of electric vehicles become very attractive to a business customer, where the current limitations of EVs make the price premium less attractive to individual consumers.

  5. Lois Reierson:

    There remains this stubborn unwillingness to look beyond the big-dollar and take something less flashy until you can find that higher-paying job.

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