Flashy

//ˈflæʃi// adj

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Showy; visually impressive, attention-getting, or appealing.

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

  2. 2
    Marked by frequent variations in water amount (compare flash flood).

    "Flow criteria were used for classification […] The criteria chosen were […] (4) the rate of change of flow with time (logged serial correlation coefficients are 0.2 in flashy rivers, but up to 0.98 in stable ones); and (5) the velocity associated with average daily flows (this varies from 1.03 m/s in flashy rivers to 0.08 m/s in lowland ones)."

  3. 3
    Flashing; producing flashes. dated, poetic

    "a flashy light"

  4. 4
    Drunk; tipsy. archaic

    "Indeed, he was 'dithguthted' at his condition; and if upon the occasion just described he had allowed himself to be somewhat 'intoxicated with liquor,' I must aver that I do not recollect another instance in which this worthy little gentleman suffered himself to be similarly overtaken. Now and then a little 'flashy' he might be, but nothing more serious—and rely upon it, this was no common virtue in those days."

Adjective
  1. 1
    (used especially of clothes) marked by conspicuous display wordnet
  2. 2
    tastelessly showy wordnet

Etymology

From flash + -y.

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