Results for showy

Definitions of showy:

part of speech: noun

Showiness.

part of speech: adjective

Gaudy; making a great show.

part of speech: adverb

Showily.

part of speech: adjective

Making a show: cutting a dash: ostentatious: gay.

Usage examples for showy:

• It may be in some measure ascribed to fortune, but still more to those showy qualities which form a sort of substitute for mental talent, and which secured his popularity with the vulgar. "History-of-the-Conquest-of-Peru-with-a-preliminary-view-of-the-civilization-of-the-Incas", Prescott, William Hickling

• She's caught a glimpse of a little group over by the front door, and she wants to make a showy entrance. "On With Torchy", Sewell Ford

• At the most, it was very showy having apparently been selected with a view to attracting as much attention as possible. "Baron Trigault's Vengeance Volume 2 (of 2)", Emile Gaboriau

• Servants in showy livery, and out- riders proudly mounted, invest the spectacle with a degree of grandeur, beneath which the imagination of a child sinks exhausted. "Madame Roland, Makers of History", John S. C. Abbott