Usually means: Attracting attention through striking appearance.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word SHOWY:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. showy: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. showy: Merriam-Webster
  3. showy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. showy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. showy: Collins English Dictionary
  6. showy: Vocabulary.com
  7. Showy, showy: Wordnik
  8. showy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. showy: Wiktionary
  10. showy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. showy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. showy: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. showy: Dictionary.com
  14. showy: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Showy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. showy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. showy: Rhymezone
  18. Showy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. showy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. showy: FreeDictionary.org
  21. showy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. showy: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. showy: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. showy: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. showy: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. showy: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (showy)

▸ adjective:  (sometimes derogatory) Calling attention; flashy; standing out to the eye.
▸ adjective:  Making a striking or aesthetically pleasing display.
▸ adjective:  (informal, chiefly of a literary work) Inclined to showing (by conveying an impression so that events are described in the narrative), instead of telling (by explicitly stating facts).

Similar:
flashy, flamboyant, gaudy, ostentatious, pretentious, fancy, theatrical, splashy, jazzy, colorful, more...

Opposite:
understated, subtle, simple, modest, unassuming

Types:
gaudy, flashy, garish, ostentatious, tawdry, vulgar, more...

Phrases:
showy orchis, showy milkweed, showy goldenrod, showy ladys slipper, showy sunflower, more...

Adjectives:
least, most, large, very, fine

Colors:
    magenta,     neon green,     electric blue,     hot pink,     bright yellow, more...

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Similar:
flashy, flamboyant, gaudy, ostentatious, pretentious, fancy, theatrical, splashy, jazzy, colorful, more...

Opposite:
understated, subtle, simple, modest, unassuming

Types:
gaudy, flashy, garish, ostentatious, tawdry, vulgar, more...

Phrases:
showy orchis, showy milkweed, showy goldenrod, showy ladys slipper, showy sunflower, showy daisy, showy lady's-slipper, showy lady slipper, showy crab apple, showy flower, showy flowers, showy trinket, more...

Adjectives:
least, most, large, very, fine

Colors:
    magenta,     neon green,     electric blue,     hot pink,     bright yellow, more...



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