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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SHOWY, a.
1. Splendid; gay; gaudy; making a great show; fine.
2. Ostentatious.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: marked by ostentation but often tasteless; "a cheap showy rhinestone bracelet"; "a splashy half-page ad" [syn: flamboyant, showy, splashy]
2: displaying brilliance and virtuosity
3: (used especially of clothes) marked by conspicuous display [syn: flashy, gaudy, jazzy, showy, sporty]
4: superficially attractive and stylish; suggesting wealth or expense; "a glossy TV series" [syn: glossy, showy]

Merriam Webster's

adjective (showier; -est) Date: 1709 1. making an attractive show ; striking <a showy orchid> 2. given to or marked by a flashy often tasteless display • showily adverb • showiness noun Synonyms: showy, pretentious, ostentatious mean given to excessive outward display. showy implies an imposing or striking appearance but usually suggests cheapness or poor taste <the performers' showy costumes>. pretentious implies an appearance of importance not justified by the thing's value or the person's standing <a pretentious parade of hard words>. ostentatious stresses vainglorious display or parade <the ostentatious summer homes of the rich>.

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. (showier, showiest) 1 brilliant; gaudy, esp. vulgarly so. 2 striking. Derivatives: showily adv. showiness n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Showy Show"y, a. [Compar. Showier; superl. Showiest.] Making a show; attracting attention; presenting a marked appearance; ostentatious; gay; gaudy. A present of everything that was rich and showy. --Addison. Syn: Splendid; gay; gaudy; gorgeous; fine; magnificent; grand; stately; sumptuous; pompous.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(showier, showiest) Something that is showy is very noticeable because it is large, colourful, or bright. Since he was color blind, he favored large, showy flowers... ADJ

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Gaudy, flashy, gay, glaring, gairish, flaunting, gorgeous, splendid, fine, dressy, jaunty, airy, bedizened, pranked out, tinsel. 2. Grand, stately, ostentatious, pompous, magnificent, sumptuous.

Moby Thesaurus

Byzantine, Gongoresque, Johnsonian, affected, arabesque, baroque, bedizened, big-sounding, brave, bravura, braw, chichi, conspicuous, convoluted, daring, dashing, declamatory, dressy, elaborate, elevated, euphuistic, exhibitionistic, fancy, flamboyant, flaming, flashing, flashy, flaunting, florid, frilly, frothy, fulsome, fussy, gallant, garish, gaudy, gay, glittering, gorgeous, grandiloquent, grandiose, grandisonant, high-flowing, high-flown, high-flying, high-sounding, highfalutin, inkhorn, intricate, jaunty, jazzy, labyrinthine, lexiphanic, lofty, lurid, luxurious, magniloquent, meretricious, opulent, ornate, orotund, ostentatious, overdone, overelaborate, overinvolved, overwrought, peacockish, peacocky, pedantic, pompous, pretentious, rakish, resplendent, rhetorical, rococo, sensational, sensationalistic, sententious, show-off, snazzy, sonorous, splashy, splurgy, sporty, stilted, sumptuous, swank, tall, tawdry, tortuous