Dictionary

flashy en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• flăsh'ē
• /ˈflæʃi/
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Etymology

Etymology tree English flash Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English flashy From flash + -y.

Meanings

1. Showy; visually impressive, attention-getting, or appealing.
   • The dancers wore flashy costumes featuring shiny sequins in many vibrant colors.
2. (of a river) 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). 2014 May 8, S. M. Haslam, River Plants of Western Europe, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 24:
3. (dated, poetic) Flashing; producing flashes.
   • a flashy light
   • […] the accustomed warmth pierced his marrow, and ran thrilling through his shaken bones; just as when at times, with forked thunder burst, a chinky stream of fire in flashy lightning shoots athwart the skies. 1826, Benjamin Apthorp Gould, The Works of Vergil: Translated into English Prose:
4. (archaic) Drunk; tipsy.
   • 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. 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:

Forms

Deriveds

glimflashy · unflashy · flashily · flashiness

Synonyms

spanceled · shellacked · gussied up · jarred · nappy · bombed · polluted · sprung · gattered · hammered · lash · wrecked · a sheet in the wind's eye · mad with it · mortal · shedded · fuddled · in the bag · bingoed · strut · wazzocked · woozy · lathered · groggy · smashed · swacked · gished · stinking · stewed · lamped · naff · stoated · in one's cups · loose · muggy · splendiferous · blingish · shitty · lubricated · unbecoming · liquored up · glaring · spongy · overrefreshed · ratfaced · cup-shotten · cut · elephant's trunk · gauche · faced · fluted · inebriated · catchpenny · bungalowed · obliviated · have the sun in one's eyes · tight · crapulous · canned · tippled · campy · snookered · drunk as a piper · blue · fuckered up · sewed up · bottled · flustered · disguised · messed up · hosed · sauced · fuckfaced · tanked up · loaded · MWI · flooey · gross · cunted · tanked · toping · jaked · larruped · maggot · blootered · impaired · scuttered · fershnickered · ebriated · inter pocula · hazed · out of it · raffish · flossy · Adrian Quist · floored · cocked · flashy · corned · puggled · medicated · adrip · muzzy · honkers · off one's head · whorish · aled up · lubed up · schloshed · elephant's · stoned · clobbered · sauced up · sloshed · overcome · trinkety · full · half cut · wobbly · razzled · hog-whimpering · off one's box · dead drunk · tipsy · ostentatious · groggified · flushed · sozzly · beliquored · Brahms and Liszt · worse for liquor · blitzed · wazzed · fap · skunked · prominent · cockeyed · three sheets in the wind · hooched up · tawdry · nimptopsical · froufrou · eye-catching · inebriate · legless · ritzy · half lit · newted · glossy · rubbered · fried · besotten · potted · fuzzy-headed · gesuip · brash · worse for wear · pizazzy · how came you so · pizazzy · throwed · soshed · a sheet in the wind · destroyed · stonkered · scammered · in liquor · blasted · blinking · sporty · pimped out · besotted · lashed · Oliver Twist · schnockered · sottish · oiled · zesty · tilted · top-heavy with drink · high · sloppy drunk · all mops and brooms · tuned · kitsch · raddled · primed · glorious · insober · tight as a tick · spannered · Brahms · bibacious · in one's altitudes · hoovered · tinselly · munted · on the ran tan · corny · slarmied · gee-eyed · pie-eyed · ripe · snozzled · brash · soused · parlatic · temulent · mortalled · ossified · chichi · fou · bosky · attention-grabbing · twisted · bevvied · high as a Georgia pine · lubed · souped-up · plowed · lushed · high as a kite · Mozart and Liszt · hooted · pickled · four sheets in the wind · well-oiled · zoned · gassed · sotted · overtaken · wellied · inebrious · zotzed · zonked · slammed · mabok · gaudy · drunken · have drink taken · blewed · spiffed · elevated · bollocksed · monged · kaylied · soaken · squiffy · grabby · out of one's face · zooted · three sheets to the wind · snazzy · paralytic · tacky · showy · shicker · maggoted · loud · fulgorous · pretentious · garish · snuffy · kettled · muddled · cup-shot · slizzard · blatant · stotious · bedrunken · lit · crude · fresh · langered · out of one's head · half polluted · squiffed · Oliver · burlin' · gay · potshot · steamboats · florid · mullered · half seas over · feeling no pain · bladdered · plastered · bibulous · rolling · frosted · oiled up · bedizened · wastey · befuddled · ebriose · flaunting · salient · crass · looped · meretricious · too much · sozzled · maudlin · ploughed · pounded · buzzed · zorched · conspicuous · wet · arseholed · vain · trashed · crocked · langers · chintzy · kitschy · lit · juiced · out of one's box · boozy · bungfu · sodden · off one's tits · flush · quisby · tasteless · out of sight · binned · flashy · in the drink · withered · loopy · splashed · obtrusive · schlocky · ginned · pixilated · liquory · top-heavy · kisky · screwed · blind · tired and emotional · blocked · untasteful · temulentive · whittled · toasted · blind drunk · shickered · glossy · snockered · prominent · stinko · fluthered · mashed · blottoed · juiced up · twatfaced · hideous · obfuscated · budgy · fuzzy-minded · insobrietous · high-profile · drunked up · drunk · ripped

Translations (23)

ru броса́ющийся в глаза́ (showy; visually impressive, attention-getting, or appealing) · ru броский (showy; visually impressive, attention-getting, or appealing) · es llamativo (showy; visually impressive, attention-getting, or appealing) · gl rechamante (showy; visually impressive, attention-getting, or appealing) · fa پرزرقوبرق (showy; visually impressive, attention-getting, or appealing) · nl flitsend (showy; visually impressive, attention-getting, or appealing) · ga péacach (showy; visually impressive, attention-getting, or appealing) · ru крикли́вый (showy; visually impressive, attention-getting, or appealing) · gl ostentoso (showy; visually impressive, attention-getting, or appealing) · es vistoso (showy; visually impressive, attention-getting, or appealing) · mk впе́чатлив (showy; visually impressive, attention-getting, or appealing) · mk бле́скав (showy; visually impressive, attention-getting, or appealing) · fr tape-à-l’œil (showy; visually impressive, attention-getting, or appealing) · mk све́тол (showy; visually impressive, attention-getting, or appealing) · mk дре́члив (showy; visually impressive, attention-getting, or appealing) · sco fantoush (showy; visually impressive, attention-getting, or appealing) · mi hahaki (showy; visually impressive, attention-getting, or appealing) · mk све́ткав (showy; visually impressive, attention-getting, or appealing) · es ostentoso (showy; visually impressive, attention-getting, or appealing) · fi koreileva (showy; visually impressive, attention-getting, or appealing) · ru крича́щий (showy; visually impressive, attention-getting, or appealing) · ru показно́й (showy; visually impressive, attention-getting, or appealing) · es chillón (showy; visually impressive, attention-getting, or appealing)