Nouns (5)
flame tree, Delonix regia, Poinciana regia, royal poinciana, peacock flower
n. showy tropical tree or shrub native to Madagascar; widely planted in tropical regions for its immense racemes of scarlet and orange flowers; sometimes placed in genus Poinciana
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Adjectives (5)
resplendent, unrestrained
adj. richly and brilliantly colorful
aureate, showy, florid
adj. elaborately or excessively ornamented; "flamboyant handwriting"; "the senator's florid speech"
Fuzzynyms (66)
flash, gaudy, brassy, vulgar, flashy, cheap, loud, meretricious, tawdry, garish, gimcrack, tacky, trashy
adj. tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments"
gallant, dashing
adj. lively and spirited; "a dashing hero"
purple, empurpled, ornate, flowery, over-embellished
adj. excessively elaborate or showily expressed; "a writer of empurpled literature"; "many purple passages"; "speech embellished with classical quotations"; "an over-embellished story of the fish that got away"
rhetorical
adj. concerned with effect or style of writing and speaking; "a rhetorical question is one asked solely to produce an effect (especially to make an assertion) rather than to elicit a reply"
large, orotund, bombastic, declamatory, turgid
adj. ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose"
overblown, grandiloquent, pompous, pontifical, portentous
adj. puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek
pretentious
adj. making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction; "a pretentious country house"; "a pretentious fraud"; "a pretentious scholarly edition"
kitsch, ostentatious, pretentious
adj. of a display that is tawdry or vulgar
expressive
adj. characterized by expression; "a very expressive face"
dandified, dandyish, foppish
adj. affecting extreme elegance in dress and manner
flash, gaudy, brassy, vulgar, flashy, cheap, loud, meretricious, tawdry, garish, gimcrack, tacky, trashy
adj. tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments"
purple, empurpled, ornate, flowery, over-embellished
adj. excessively elaborate or showily expressed; "a writer of empurpled literature"; "many purple passages"; "speech embellished with classical quotations"; "an over-embellished story of the fish that got away"
embellished, ornamented, ornate
adj. rich in decorative detail
Synonyms (42)
gaudy, flashy, jazzy, showy, snazzy, sporty
adj. (used especially of clothes) marked by conspicuous display
many-sided, interesting
adj. full of variety or interest; "a many-sided personality"
picturesque
adj. strikingly expressive; "a picturesque description of the rainforest"
baroque, churrigueresque, churrigueresco
adj. having elaborate symmetrical ornamentation; "the building...frantically baroque"-William Dean Howells
busy, fussy
adj. overcrowded or cluttered with detail; "a busy painting"; "a fussy design"
battlemented, castellated, castled, crenelated, crenellated
adj. having or resembling repeated square indentations like those in a battlement; "a crenelated molding"
chichi, dressy
adj. in fancy clothing
crackle
adj. having the surface decorated with a network of fine cracks, as in crackleware; "a crackle glaze"
damascene, damascened
adj. (of metals) decorated or inlaid with a wavy pattern of different (especially precious) metals; "a damascened sword"
damask
adj. having a woven pattern; "damask table linens"
elaborate, intricate
adj. marked by complexity and richness of detail; "an elaborate lace pattern"
crenelate, crenellate, indented, crenelated, crenellated, embattled
adj. having or resembling repeated square indentations like those in a battlement; "a crenelated molding"
lacy, lacelike
adj. made of or resembling lace; "a lacy gown"; "a lacy leaf"
puff, full, puffed
adj. gathered for protruding fullness; "puff sleeves"
rococo
adj. having excessive asymmetrical ornamentation; "an exquisite gilded rococo mirror"
vermiculate, vermicular, vermiculated
adj. decorated with wormlike tracery or markings; "vermicular (or vermiculated) stonework"
Antonyms (2)
wan, pallid
adj. (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble; "the pale light of a half moon"; "a pale sun"; "the late afternoon light coming through the el tracks fell in pale oblongs on the street"; "a pallid sky"; "the pale (or wan) stars"; "the wan light of dawn"
flamboyant
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