Word Meanings - SHOWY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SHOWY)

• Dashing
• Adventurous
• showy
• brave
• Fine
• Thin
• minute
• slender
• delicate
• pure
• smooth
• filmy
• gauzy
• keen
• artistic
• choice
• finished
• high
• Grand
• noble
• sensitive
• refined
• generous
• honorable
• excellent
• superior
• pretty
• beautiful
• elegant
• ostentatious
• presumptuous
• nice
• casuistical
• subtle
• Flaring
• Flaming
• glaring
• conspicuous
• gaudy
• bright
• over-colored
• flaunting
• flashy
• tawdry
• Gallant
• Brave
• chivalrous
• intrepid
• courteous
• heroic
• fearless
• courageous
• valiant
• bold
• splendid
• gay
• Gaudy
• Tawdry
• fine
• meretricious
• bespangled
• glittering
• garish

Related words: (words related to SHOWY)

• SMOOTHEN
  To make smooth.
• BRIGHT
  See I
• BEAUTIFUL
  Having the qualities which constitute beauty; pleasing to the sight or the mind. A circle is more beautiful than a square; a square is more beautiful than a parallelogram. Lord Kames. Syn. -- Handsome; elegant; lovely; fair; charming; graceful;
• SPLENDIDIOUS
  Splendid.
• FLARE-UP
  A sudden burst of anger or passion; an angry dispute.
• SENSITIVE
  1. Having sense of feeling; possessing or exhibiting the capacity of receiving impressions from external objects; as, a sensitive soul. 2. Having quick and acute sensibility, either to the action of external objects, or to impressions upon the
• GRANDEUR
  The state or quality of being grand; vastness; greatness; splendor; magnificence; stateliness; sublimity; dignity; elevation of thought or expression; nobility of action. Nor doth this grandeur and majestic show Of luxury . . . allure mine eye.
• SMOOTHNESS
  Quality or state of being smooth.
• HONORABLE
  1. Worthy of honor; fit to be esteemed or regarded; estimable; illustrious. Thy name and honorable family. Shak. 2. High-minded; actuated by principles of honor, or a scrupulous regard to probity, rectitude, or reputation. 3. Proceeding from an
• GRANDEESHIP
  The rank or estate of a grandee; lordship. H. Swinburne.
• FINISHER
  1. One who finishes, puts an end to, completes, or perfects; esp. used in the trades, as in hatting, weaving, etc., for the workman who gives a finishing touch to the work, or any part of it, and brings it to perfection. O prophet of glad tidings,
• INTREPIDLY
  In an intrepid manner; courageously; resolutely.
• GALLANTLY
  In a polite or courtly manner; like a gallant or wooer.
• GRANDMA; GRANDMAMMA
  A grand mother.
• CHOICELY
  1. With care in choosing; with nice regard to preference. "A band of men collected choicely, from each county some." Shak. 2. In a preferable or excellent manner; excellently; eminently. "Choicely good." Walton.
• DASHER
  1. That which dashes or agitates; as, the dasher of a churn. 2. A dashboard or splashboard. 3. One who makes an ostentatious parade.
• FLAMINEOUS
  Pertaining to a flamen; flaminical.
• GRANDUNCLE
  father's or mother's uncle.
• NOBLEWOMAN
  A female of noble rank; a peeress.
• FLARING
  1. That flares; flaming or blazing unsteadily; shining out with a dazzling light. His flaring beams. Milton. 2. Opening or speading outwards.
• BURGLARIOUSLY
  With an intent to commit burglary; in the manner of a burglar. Blackstone.
• INFLAMER
  The person or thing that inflames. Addison.
• PREFINE
  To limit beforehand. Knolles.
• GREAT-GRANDFATHER
  The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• CONGENEROUS
  Allied in origin or cause; congeneric; as, congenerous diseases. Sir T. Browne. -- Con*gen"er*ous*ness, n. Hallywell.