Antonyms for flashy

Grammar : Adj

Spell : flash-ee

Phonetic Transcription : ˈflæʃ i

Definition of flashy

Origin : "showy, cheaply attractive," 1680s, from flash + -y (2). Earlier it meant "splashing" (1580s); "sparkling, giving off flashes" (c.1600). Related: Flashily; flashiness.

adj flamboyant, in poor taste

Example sentences :

He was dressed in a flashy style, not unlike what is popularly denominated a swell.
Extract from : « The Cash Boy » by Horatio Alger Jr.

He had to have his square meal and his flashy flannel shirts.
Extract from : « Mayflower (Flor de mayo) » by Vicente Blasco Ibez

She was a large, flashy woman, wearing a quantity of cheap jewellery.
Extract from : « All Roads Lead to Calvary » by Jerome K. Jerome

His clothes were flashy, and he "sported" several large diamonds.
Extract from : « Frank Merriwell's Bravery » by Burt L. Standish

You think you could teach that flashy sister of yours the Vanish?
Extract from : « Out Like a Light » by Gordon Randall Garrett

He was not a gentleman, nor yet one of the loud, flashy sort that call themselves so.
Extract from : « Black Beauty » by Anna Sewell

Such women as he had known were of nearly one type, selfish, ignorant, flashy.
Extract from : « Sister Carrie » by Theodore Dreiser

There is the notion that the Press is flashy or trivial because it is popular.
Extract from : « Utopia of Usurers and other Essays » by Gilbert Keith Chesterton

I'll get a flashy ring to represent the one presented to you by the queen.
Extract from : « My Life: or the Adventures of Geo. Thompson » by George Thompson

Tchartkóff was apt to indulge in the flashy and the superficial.
Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 » by Various

Synonyms for flashy

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