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Elaborately or highly decorated in design or decoration

Having a flamboyantly striking appearance or style

Having an impressive or spectacular appearance or style

Intended to impress in a showy manner

Expressed in terms intended to persuade or impress

Exaggerated and excessively dramatic

Elegant or stylishly luxurious

(of a man) Neat and trim in dress and appearance

Affectedly grand or pretentious in manner or behavior

Brazen or flashy in nature, character or appearance

Pleasant and satisfactory, especially to the mind or senses

Characterized by festivities or a sense of revelry

Having a lively or cheerful manner or character

Affectedly concerned with elegant or refined behavior, language, or manners

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Adjective

Elaborately or highly decorated in design or decoration

fancily decorated

highly decorated

with all the extras

with all the options

with bells and whistles

over-embellished

overemphasized^US

overemphasised^UK

larger-than-life

pleasing to the eye

attention-grabbing

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“The bier is covered with cloth, and the coffin itself with a gold tissue on a red ground, while the lid is plentifully ornamented with showy decorations.”

Adjective

Having a flamboyantly striking appearance or style

brightly colored^US

brightly coloured^UK

recognizable^US

cheap and nasty

recognisable^UK

bright-coloured

multicoloured^UK

multicolored^US

distinguishable

many-coloured^US

many-colored^UK

exhibitionistic

attention-grabbing

like an explosion in a paint factory

looking like an explosion in a paint factory

out of the ordinary

highly-coloured

richly colored^UK

twopenny-halfpenny

richly coloured^US

written all over one

brilliantly colored^US

brilliantly coloured^UK

in the foreground

sticking out a mile

standing out like a sore thumb

standing out a mile

sticking out like a sore thumb

under one's nose

right under your nose

multi-colored^US

multi-coloured^UK

many-splendoured

putting on the ritz

rainbow-coloured

rainbow-colored

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“Alexander was quick-witted, talented, and showy, if I may use so barbarous a word.”

Adjective

Having an impressive or spectacular appearance or style

attention-grabbing

thought-provoking

envigorating^UK

invigorating^US

out of the ordinary

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“He walked through the showy lobby and up to the counter.”

Adjective

Intended to impress in a showy manner

hyperventilated

over the top OTT

full of airs and graces

high and mighty

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“Humility shuns showy arrogance and all forms of aggressiveness.”

Adjective

Expressed in terms intended to persuade or impress

hyperventilated

full of hot air

circumlocutionary

with the gift of the gab

having kissed the Blarney stone

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“Here the extra description seems to have been more about using showy language and making clear that he was a student of the classics.”

Adjective

Exaggerated and excessively dramatic

sensationalised^UK

sensationalized^US

not spontaneous

over-sensational

cloak-and-dagger

blood-and-thunder

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Adjective

Elegant or stylishly luxurious

lavishly appointed

disproportionate

fit for a queen

out of this world

with good taste

in the lap of luxury

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Adjective

(of a man) Neat and trim in dress and appearance

well turned out

dressed to kill

smartly dressed

well turned-out

dressed to nines

as if one had just stepped out of a bandbox

up to the minute

bang up to date

dressed to the teeth

in the mainstream

up-to-the-minute

state-of-the-art

forward-looking

newly discovered

recently developed

forward-thinking

highly developed

fashionably dressed

well-turned-out

dressed to the nines

on the cutting edge

in the latest style

well-thought-out

contemporaneous

ground-breaking

never-before-seen

ahead of the times

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Adjective

Affectedly grand or pretentious in manner or behavior

high-and-mighty

high and mighty

self-centred^UK

self-opinionated

full of oneself

full of yourself

offensively self-assertive

self-centered^US

swollen with pride

too big for your boots

self-congratulatory

stuck on oneself

self-preoccupied

pleased with oneself

self-infatuated

wrapped up in oneself

self-interested

self-glorifying

individualistic

too big for your breeches

self-aggrandizing

full of hot air

holier-than-thou

proud of oneself

think too highly of oneself

have an excessively high opinion of oneself

on your high horse

too big for your britches

pleased with yourself

self-respecting

in love with oneself

think a lot of oneself

blowing one's own horn

nose in the air

looking after number one

blowing one's own trumpet

I'm all right, Jack

flushed with success

proud of yourself

like a cat that has swallowed the canary

like the cat that's got the cream

think one is the cat's pyjamas

think one is the cat's whiskers

think one is God's gift

self-sufficient

having a swelled head

wrapped up with oneself

self-applauding

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Adjective

Brazen or flashy in nature, character or appearance

high and mighty

full of yourself

throwing one's weight around

high-and-mighty

full of oneself

as bold as brass

self-glorifying

self-congratulatory

self-opinionated

self-centred^UK

self-centered^US

too big for your boots

coming on strong

throwing one's weight about

putting on airs

not backwards in coming forwards

tongue-in-cheek

lacking civility

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Adjective

Pleasant and satisfactory, especially to the mind or senses

supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

super-excellent

easy on the eye

pulchritudinous

out of this world

as pretty as a picture

drop-dead gorgeous

easy on the eyes

to one's liking

sexually attractive

gladly received

extremely pleasant

extremely enjoyable

drawing attention

very pleasurable

very attractive

greatly to one's liking

picture-perfect

full of promise

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Adjective

Characterized by festivities or a sense of revelry

Adjective

Having a lively or cheerful manner or character

bright-eyed and bushy-tailed

in good spirits

full of vim and vigour

full of the joys of spring

as lively as a grig

as merry as a grig

in high spirits

good-humoured^UK

good-humored^US

without a care in the world

bright and breezy

full of get-up-and-go

alive and kicking

feeling one's oats

full of joie de vivre

beside oneself with joy

on top of the world

full of vim and vigor

glass half full

full of the joy of living

hale and hearty

doing handsprings

floating on air

tongue-in-cheek

full of mischief

mischief-making

invigorating^US

confrontational

envigorating^UK

coming on strong

pulling no punches

full of activity

disposed to look on the bright side

entrepreneurial

still going strong

quick on the draw

quick on the uptake

have chip on shoulder

have a bone to pick

fresh as a daisy

like a new person

looking on the bright side

indicating emotion

indicating feeling

full of feeling

full of emotion

not backwards in coming forwards

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Adjective

Affectedly concerned with elegant or refined behavior, language, or manners

over-sentimental

hyperventilated

over the top OTT

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