showy

English

Etymology

show +‎ -y

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -əʊi
Homophone: showie

Adjective

showy (comparative showier, superlative showiest)

(sometimes derogatory) calling attention; flashy; standing out to the eye

Synonyms

Thesaurus:gaudy

Hyponyms

slutty

Derived terms

showiness

Translations

for show

Chinese:
Mandarin: 浮華 (zh), 浮华 (zh) (fúhuá, fúhua)
Finnish: näyttävä (fi), pramea (fi)
French: tape-à-l’œil (fr)
Galician: ostentoso m
German: protzig (de), auffällig (de), schreiend (de), grell (de)
Irish: éagsúil, taibhseach

Japanese: 派手な (ja) (はでな, hade na), けばけばしい (ja) (kebakebashii)
Polish: na pokaz (pl)
Portuguese: mirabolante (pt)
Russian: я́ркий (ru) (járkij) (bright), эффе́ктный (ru) (efféktnyj), впечатля́ющий (ru) (vpečatljájuščij), безвку́сный (ru) (bezvkúsnyj) (tasteless), пёстрый (ru) (pjóstryj) (motley), крича́щий (ru) (kričáščij), показно́й (ru) (pokaznój), на пока́з (na pokáz), напы́щенный (ru) (napýščennyj)
Spanish: ostentoso (es), jactancioso (es), aparatoso (es)
Tagalog: mapagyabang, hambog (tl)

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