adj. displaying brilliance and virtuosity

adj. marked by ostentation but often tasteless; "a cheap showy rhinestone bracelet"; "a splashy half-page ad"

adj. elaborately or excessively ornamented; "flamboyant handwriting"; "the senator's florid speech"

adj. (used especially of clothes) marked by conspicuous display

adj. having brief brilliant points or flashes of light; "bugle beads all aglitter"; "glinting eyes"; "glinting water"; "his glittering eyes were cold and malevolent"; "shop window full of glittering Christmas trees"; "glittery costume jewelry"; "scintillant mica"; "the scintillating stars"; "a dress with sparkly sequins"; "`glistering' is an archaic term"

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"

adj. ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose"

adj. puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek

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"

adj. of a display that is tawdry or vulgar

adj. characterized by expression; "a very expressive face"

adj. affecting extreme elegance in dress and manner

adj. tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments"

adj. affectedly genteel

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"

adj. rich in decorative detail

adj. tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments"

adj. seizing the attention; "eye-catching posters"

adj. marked by complexity and richness of detail; "an elaborate lace pattern"

adj. of a display that is tawdry or vulgar

adj. having elaborate symmetrical ornamentation; "the building...frantically baroque"-William Dean Howells

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"

adj. quick and energetic; "a brisk walk in the park"; "a lively gait"; "a merry chase"; "traveling at a rattling rate"; "a snappy pace"; "a spanking breeze"

adj. displaying animation, vigor, or liveliness

adj. full of life and energy; "a lively discussion"; "lively and attractive parents"; "a lively party"

adj. characteristic of acting or a stage performance; often affected; "histrionic gestures"; "an attitude of melodramatic despair"; "a theatrical pose"

adj. having characteristics of the stage especially an artificial and mannered quality; "stagy heroics"

adj. inclined to flaunt

adj. having elaborate symmetrical ornamentation; "the building...frantically baroque"-William Dean Howells

adj. overcrowded or cluttered with detail; "a busy painting"; "a fussy design"

adj. having or resembling repeated square indentations like those in a battlement; "a crenelated molding"

adj. in fancy clothing

adj. having the surface decorated with a network of fine cracks, as in crackleware; "a crackle glaze"

adj. (of metals) decorated or inlaid with a wavy pattern of different (especially precious) metals; "a damascened sword"

adj. having a woven pattern; "damask table linens"

adj. marked by complexity and richness of detail; "an elaborate lace pattern"

adj. having or resembling repeated square indentations like those in a battlement; "a crenelated molding"

adj. made of or resembling lace; "a lacy gown"; "a lacy leaf"

adj. gathered for protruding fullness; "puff sleeves"

adj. having excessive asymmetrical ornamentation; "an exquisite gilded rococo mirror"

adj. decorated with wormlike tracery or markings; "vermicular (or vermiculated) stonework"

adj. richly and brilliantly colorful

adj. full of variety or interest; "a many-sided personality"

adj. strikingly expressive; "a picturesque description of the rainforest"

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"