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flamboyant
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun flamboyant has 1 sense
- flamboyant(n = noun.plant) delonix regia, flame tree, peacock flower, poinciana regia, royal poinciana - showy tropical tree or shrub native to Madagascar; widely planted in tropical regions for its immense racemes of scarlet and orange flowers; sometimes placed in genus Poinciana; Array is a member of delonix, genus delonix
is a kind of angiospermous tree, flowering tree
Derived form adjective flamboyant2
Adjective flamboyant has 2 senses
- flamboyant(s = adj.all) showy, splashy - marked by ostentation but often tasteless; "a cheap showy rhinestone bracelet"; "a splashy half-page ad" Derived form noun flamboyance1
- flamboyant(s = adj.all) aureate, florid - elaborately or excessively ornamented; "flamboyant handwriting"; "the senator's florid speech" Derived forms noun flamboyance1, noun flamboyant1
CIDE DICTIONARY
flamboyant, a. [F.].
Characterized by waving or flamelike curves, as in the tracery of windows, etc.; -- said of the later (15th century) French Gothic style. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
flamboyant, adj.
1 ostentatious; showy.
2 floridly decorated.
3 gorgeously coloured.
4 Archit. (of decoration) marked by wavy flamelike lines.
1 ostentatious; showy.
2 floridly decorated.
3 gorgeously coloured.
4 Archit. (of decoration) marked by wavy flamelike lines.
Derivative
flamboyance n. flamboyancy n. flamboyantly adv.
Etymology
F (in Archit. sense), pres. part. of flamboyer f. flambe: see FLAMBEAU
THESAURUS
flamboyant
Gongoresque, Johnsonian, affected, arabesque, baroque, bedazzling, bedizened, big-sounding, blinding, bright, bright and shining, brilliant, busy, chichi, convoluted, dashing, dazzling, declamatory, decorated, effulgent, elaborate, elegant, elevated, embellished, euphuistic, extravagant, fancy, fine, flaming, flashy, flaunting, florid, flowery, frilly, fulgent, fulgid, fulsome, fussy, garish, gaudy, glaring, glary, grandiloquent, grandiose, grandisonant, high, high-flowing, high-flown, high-flying, high-sounding, high-wrought, highfalutin, inkhorn, jaunty, labored, labyrinthine, lexiphanic, lofty, lurid, luscious, luxuriant, luxurious, magniloquent, meretricious, moresque, ornamented, ornate, orotund, ostentatious, overdone, overelaborate, overelegant, overinvolved, overlabored, overworked, overwrought, peacockish, peacocky, pedantic, picturesque, pompous, pretentious, pretty-pretty, rakish, refulgent, resplendent, rhetorical, rich, rococo, sensational, sensationalistic, sententious, showy, sonorous, splashy, splendent, splendid, splendorous, stilted, swank, swashbuckling, tall, tortuous, vivid, wide
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