flashy

Adjective

1. Showy; visually impressive, attention-getting, or appealing.
   • The dancers wore flashy costumes featuring shiny sequins in many vibrant colors.

   Synonyms: glossy prominent brash pizazzy attention-grabbing conspicuous eye-catching flashy grabby high-profile salient bedizened blatant blingish campy catchpenny chichi chintzy corny crass crude flaunting florid flossy

2. Marked by frequent variations in water amount (compare flash flood).
   • Flow criteria were used for classification […] The criteria chosen were […] (4) the rate of change of flow with time (logged serial correlation coefficients are 0.2 in flashy rivers, but up to 0.98 in stable ones); and...
3. Flashing; producing flashes.
   • a flashy light
   • […] the accustomed warmth pierced his marrow, and ran thrilling through his shaken bones; just as when at times, with forked thunder burst, a chinky stream of fire in flashy lightning shoots athwart the skies. - 1826,...

   Synonyms: blinking fulgorous

4. Drunk; tipsy.
   • Indeed, he was 'dithguthted' at his condition; and if upon the occasion just described he had allowed himself to be somewhat 'intoxicated with liquor,' I must aver that I do not recollect another instance in which this...

   Synonyms: buzzed lit squiffy Adrian Quist adrip aled up all mops and brooms arseholed a sheet in the wind a sheet in the wind's eye bedrunken befuddled beliquored besotted besotten bevvied bibacious bibulous binned bingoed bladdered blasted blewed blind