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
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"
flashy, gaudy, jazzy, showy, sportyadjective
(used especially of clothes) marked by conspicuous display
Wiktionary
flashyadjective
Showy; visually impressive, attention-getting, or appealing.
The dancers wore flashy costumes featuring shiny sequins in many vibrant colors.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
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
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
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
Flashyadjective
dazzling for a moment; making a momentary show of brilliancy; transitorily bright
Flashyadjective
fiery; vehement; impetuous
Flashyadjective
showy; gay; gaudy; as, a flashy dress
Flashyadjective
without taste or spirit
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of flashy in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of flashy in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8
Examples of flashy in a Sentence
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.
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.
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.’.
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.
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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