flashiness
61loudness — Synonyms and related words: amplitude, arsenic green, auditory effect, auditory phenomenon, blatancy, brazenness, clashing colors, coarseness, color clash, colorfulness, crassness, crudeness, crudity, dash, dazzle, dazzlingness, earthiness,… …
62ostentation — Synonyms and related words: Barnumism, acting, affectation, appearance, arabesque, arrantness, attitudinizing, baroque, baroqueness, bedizenment, big talk, blatancy, bluff, bluffing, boldness, cheating, chinoiserie, color, coloring,… …
63panache — Synonyms and related words: animation, blatancy, boldness, brazenness, brio, chic, colorfulness, crest, crudeness, cultivation, dash, dazzle, dazzlingness, eclat, elan, energy, enthusiasm, extravagance, extravaganza, extravagation, feather,… …
64pomposity — Synonyms and related words: Barnumism, affectation, arrogance, assurance, assuredness, bedizenment, belief, big talk, buckram, ceremonial, ceremoniousness, ceremony, certitude, cocksureness, confidence, confidentness, conviction, convolution,… …
65pretension — Synonyms and related words: Barnumism, acting, affectation, affectedness, airs, airs and graces, alibi, ambitions, ambitiousness, apology, appearance, appurtenance, artificiality, aspiration, attitudinizing, authority, bedizenment, big talk,… …
66rhetoric — Synonyms and related words: Barnumism, affectation, articulateness, bedizenment, big talk, bluster, bombast, choice of words, command of language, command of words, composition, convolution, debating, declamation, demagogism, dialect, diction,… …
67sensationalism — Synonyms and related words: Barnumism, Thespian art, affectation, aggrandizement, amateur theatricals, amplification, ballyhoo, bedizenment, big talk, blatancy, blood and thunder, blowing up, brazenness, burlesque, caricature, colorfulness,… …
68ostentation — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Pretentious display Nouns 1. ostentation, ostentatiousness, display, show, flourish, parade; pomp, array, state, solemnity; dash, splash, glitter, strut; bombast, pomposity (see boasting); tinsel,… …
69swank — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. spectacle, array, swagger; see display 2 . modif. Syn. ostentatious, stylish, extravagant, exclusive. II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. style, ostentation, stylishness, showiness, fashion, flashiness, flamboyance. III (Roget …
70flashy — (adj.) showy, cheaply attractive, 1680s, from FLASH (Cf. flash) + Y (Cf. y) (2). Earlier it meant splashing (1580s); sparkling, giving off flashes (c.1600). Related: Flashily; flashiness …
