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4. showiness, flauntiness, floridness, showy appearance; pomp, pomposity, pompousness, fanfare, Inf. razzle-dazzle; gaudiness, garishness, ostentation, parade, pageantry, spectacle; flashiness, Sl. pizzazz, vividness, brightness, gayness, colorfulness; loudness, cheapness, tawdriness, meretriciousness; display, exhibit, exhibition, disporting; swaggering, strutting, peacockery, swashbuckling; boasting, bragging, vaunting.
5. flashing, flaming, flaring, blazing, burning; blast, violent outburst or outbreak, ebullition, paroxysm, dissilience, dissiliency; explosion, Obs. displosion, fulmination, detonation; eruption, cataclysm, upheaval; outpouring, volley, discharge.
6. lock, sluice, penstock, sluice gate; floodgate, head gate, tide gate; dam, weir.
-v. 7. flame, blaze, burn, conflagrate; flare, spark, scintillate; gleam, glare, effulge, fulgurate, coruscate; streak, stream, beam; glitter, glimmer, glisten, Archaic, glister, glint; shimmer, shine, flicker, sparkle, twinkle; flutter, fluctuate, oscillate, vacillate; glow, phosphoresce, incandesce, make radiant; brighten, dazzle, bedazzle, blind; illuminate, illumine, Archaic. illume, Obs. enlumine, light or light up.
8. dart, dartle, dash, Inf. scoot, scuttle, Inf. skedaddle; run, sprint, scud, tear; rush, hasten, hurry; fly, run like the wind, race; bolt, bound, spring, leap, start quickly, Sl. tear off, Inf. take off; streak, Inf. go hellbent, bolt like lightning or greased lightning, go like a shot.
9. Informal, show off. See - flare (def. 4).
-adj. 10. showy, ostentatious, Inf. sporty. See - flashy (def. 2).
11. counterfeit, forged, fraudulent, imitation; fake, not genuine, bogus, spurious; pretended, feigned, simulated, make-believe, sham; unreal, mock, ersatz, synthetic; artificial, factitious, contrived, fictitious; assumed, put-on, pseudo.
12. brief, momentary, temporary, of short duration, short; impermanent, mortal, unenduring, fleeting, passing, fading; transitory, transient, fugacious, evanescent, ephemeral; fast, swift, brisk, sudden, quick, fleet, meteoric; cursory, hurried, hasty.
flashy, adj. 1. sparkling, coruscant, scintillating, glittering; brilliant, magnificent, superb, rich, dazzling, Music, bravura; splendid, splendrous, celebrated, distinguished; admirable, exceptional, laudable, praiseworthy, worthy, remarkable; commendable, meretori-ous, deserving, exemplary; prime, choice, select, rare, best, sterling.
2. showy, flamboyant, gaudy, ostentatious, pretentious, flash, Inf. sporty; bedizened, tricked out or up, flaunting, garish; tawdry, loud, Inf. tacky, cheap, meretricious; obtrusive, pompous, glaring; bright, gay, florid, gorgeous, colorific, colorful, chromatic; All Sl. snazzy, ritzy, jazzy, classy.
flask, n. 1. bottle, flagon, decanter, carafe, pitcher, jug; cruet, cruse.
2. flat bottle, canteen, wineskin; flasket, vial.
flat, adj. 1. level, plane, horizontal; even, smooth, unbroken.
2. horizontal, lying down, stretched out, spread out, spread-eagle; prostrate, lying flat, prone, supine, reclining, recumbent.
3. deflated, collapsed, blown out, ruptured, punctured.
4. outright, direct, downright, out-and-out, straight-out; unqualified, categorical, unconditional, total, complete; absolute, conclusive, unquestionable, positive, definite, firm, set, final.
5. lifeless, spiritless, prosy, prosaic, vapid, dull, tedious, tiresome; boring, monotonous, bland, insipid, jejune, uninteresting, pointless.
6. stale, unpalatable, unsavory, unappetizing; vapid, insipid, dead, tasteless, flavorless, Fr. fade weak, thin, watery, watered-down.
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