showy

showy
adj
1. flamboyant, ornate, elaborate, involved, Music. bravura; fancy, florid, flowery, high-wrought; conspicuous, striking, imposing, obvious.
2. ostentatious, fastuous, pretentious, doggy, affected; over-wrought, overdone, extreme, frilly, over-decorated; artificial, surface, specious; glittering, theatrical, Sl. grandstand.
3. gaudy, garish, flashy, Sl. flash, loud, bold, hard, Inf. honky-tonk; tawdry, meretricious, cheap, dime-store, tinselly, gimcrack, trashy, Inf. chintzy, Inf. tacky, Sl. rinky-dink; tasteless, in bad taste, indelicate, crude, vulgar.

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