单词	flashy
释义	flashyflash‧y /ˈflæʃi/ adjective informal Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES a flashy new sports car a flashy young businessman EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS Ellwood drove an Audi - fast but not flashy. He is emotional, outspoken and flashy. I slid the flashy, long-barreled, wooden-gripped revolver back into the black hip holster. Our presence is not intended to be flashy and we want to minimize our risks while maximizing our opportunities. The flashy gear turned you, however unwillingly, into a sort of pied piper of Western materialism. Thesaurus Longman Language Activatorbehaving in a way that makes people notice you► flamboyant someone who is flamboyant behaves, performs, or dresses in an extremely confident, and often unusual way that makes other people notice them: · He is one of football's most flamboyant characters.· a flamboyant French businessman· a young woman in flamboyant clothes ► dramatic if you do something in a dramatic way, you do it in a loud or noticeable way that is intended to get people's attention: · She raised her hands in a dramatic gesture of despair.· Rumpole produced the evidence with a dramatic flourish.· Rosa made a dramatic entrance into the room, wearing a tiny red dress. ► ostentatious doing things or buying things only in order to show people that you have a lot of money or because you want them to admire you or be jealous of you: · I thought of framing the letter, but that would be ostentatious.· They built themselves huge, ostentatious houses. ► flashy someone who is flashy likes to show off about how much money or how many expensive things they have - use this when you do not approve of someone who does this: · a flashy young businessman ► pretentious doing something in a way that is intended to show how artistic or well-educated you are, in order to make people admire you - used to show disapproval: · I found Susie unbearably pretentious.· He has a pretentious style of writing, using four very difficult words where one simple one would do. Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN► car · He owned a haulage company and always had a flashy car and loads of money.· Other than that he lived modestly, without flashy cars or new homes. 1big, bright, or expensive, and intended to be impressive – used to show disapproval:  large flashy cars2someone who is flashy wears expensive clothes, jewellery etc in a way that is intended to be impressive – used to show disapproval:  a flashy dresser
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