flashy

Adjective

flashy (comparative flashier, superlative flashiest)

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, sporty, attention-grabbing, conspicuous, eye-catching, grabby, high-profile

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 (5) the velocity associated with average daily flows (this varies from 1.03 m/s...2014 May 8, S. M. Haslam, River Plants of Western Europe, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 24
3. (dated, poetic) 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, Benjamin Apthorp Gould, The Works of Vergil: Translated into English Prose

   Synonyms:

   blinking, fulgorous

4. (archaic) 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 worthy little gentleman suffered himself to be similarly overtaken. Now and then...1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard

   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