| Main Entry: | jazzy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fancy |
Synonyms: |
animated, exciting, flashy, gaudy, lively, salacious, sexy, smart, snazzy, spirited, vivacious, wild, zestful, zippy |
Antonyms: |
conservative, simple, unfancy |
| Main Entry: | brassy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | vulgar, loud to the senses |
Synonyms: |
arrant, barefaced, blaring, blatant, bold, brash, brazen, flashy, flirtatious, forward, garish, gaudy, grating, hard, harsh, impudent, insolent, jarring, jazzy, loudmouthed, noisy, obtrusive, overbold, pert, piercing, rude, saucy, shameless, showy, shrill, strident, unabashed, unblushing |
Antonyms: |
careful, cautious, circumspect, humble, prudent |
| Main Entry: | colorful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | brilliant, intensely hued |
Synonyms: |
bright, chromatic, flashy, florid, gaudy, gay, hued, intense, jazzy, kaleidoscopic, loud, motley, multicolored, picturesque, prismatic, psychedelic, rich, showy, splashy, variegated, vibrant, vivid |
Antonyms: |
colorless, drab, dreary, faded, plain, uncolored, uncolorful |
| Main Entry: | colorful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | full of life, interesting |
Synonyms: |
brave, characterful, distinctive, flaky*, gay, glamorous, graphic, jazzy, lively, picturesque, rich, stimulating, unusual, vivid |
Antonyms: |
boring, dull, lifeless, plain, uninteresting |
| Main Entry: | conspicuous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | important, prominent |
Synonyms: |
arresting, arrestive, blatant, celebrated, commanding, distinguished, eminent, famed, famous, flagrant, flashy, garish, glaring, glitzy, illustrious, influential, jazzy, loud, marked, notable, noted, notorious, outstanding, pointed, rank, remarkable, renowned, salient, screaming, showy, signal, splashy, stick out like sore thumb, striking, tony, well-known |
Antonyms: |
inconspicuous, obscure, unimportant, unknown, unremarkable |
| Main Entry: | flamboyant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | extravagant, theatrical |
Synonyms: |
baroque, bombastic, brilliant, camp, chichi*, colorful, dashing, dazzling, elaborate, exciting, flaky*, flaming, flashy, florid, gassy, gaudy, glamorous, jazzy, luscious, luxuriant, ornate, ostentatious, peacockish, pretentious, resplendent, rich, rococo, showy, splashy, sporty, swank, swashbuckling |
Antonyms: |
calm, moderate, modest, restrained, tasteful, unflashy |
| Main Entry: | flashy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | flamboyant, in poor taste |
Synonyms: |
blatant, brazen, catchpenny, cheap, chintzy, flaunting, florid, garish, gaudy, glaring, glittering, glittery, glitzy, jazzy, loud, meretricious, ornate, ostentatious, showy, snazzy, sparkling, tacky*, tasteless, tawdry, tinsel, vulgar |
Antonyms: |
plain, simple, subdued, tasteful, unflamboyant, unflashy, ungaudy, unobtrusive |
| Main Entry: | gaudy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bright and vulgar |
Synonyms: |
blatant, brazen, brilliant, catchpenny, chichi*, chintzy, coarse, crude, flashy, flaunting, florid, frou-frou, garish, gay, glaring, gross, gussied up, jazzy, kitschy, loud, meretricious, obtrusive, ostentatious, pizzazz*, pretentious, putting on the ritz, raffish, ritzy, screaming, showy, snazzy, splashy, splendiferous, tasteless, tawdry, tinsel |
Antonyms: |
calm, drab, dull, modest, plain, refined, simple, sophisticated |
| Main Entry: | pretentious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | snobbish, conceited |
Synonyms: |
affected, arty, assuming, aureate, big*, bombastic, chichi*, conspicuous, euphuistic, exaggerated, extravagant, feigned, flamboyant, flashy, flaunting, flowery, gaudy, grandiloquent, grandiose, high-flown, high-sounding, highfaluting, hollow, imposing, inflated, jazzy, la-di-da, lofty, magniloquent, mincing, ornate, ostentatious, overambitious, overblown, pompous, puffed up, put-on, rhetorical, showy, specious, splashy, stilted, swank, too-too, tumid, turgid, utopian, vainglorious |
Antonyms: |
humble, modest, unconceited |
| Main Entry: | showy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | flamboyant, flashy |
Synonyms: |
classy, dashing, flash, garish, gaudy, glaring, histrionic, jazzy, loud, luxurious, meretricious, opulent, ornate, ostentatious, overdone, overwrought, peacocky, pompous, pretentious, resplendent, screaming, sensational, snazzy, splashy, splendiferous, sumptuous, swank, tawdry, tinsel, tony |
Antonyms: |
dismal, drab, gloomy, moderate, restrained |