ostentatious

Main Entry:
ostentatious [os-ten-tey-shuhs, -tuhn-]
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: flashy, showy
Synonyms: boastful, chichi*, classy, conspicuous, crass*, dashing, egotistic, exhibitionistic, extravagant, flamboyant, flatulent, flaunted, fussy, garish, gaudy, gay, glittery, grandiose, highfaluting, jaunty, loud, obtrusive, peacocky, pompous, pretentious, spectacular, splashy, splurgy, sporty, swank, swanky*, theatrical, tinsel, tony, uptown, vain, vulgar
Antonyms: modest, plain, quiet, reserved
Main Entry: blatant
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: obvious; brazen
Synonyms: arrant, bald, barefaced, brassy, clear, conspicuous, crying, flagrant, flashy, flaunting, garish, gaudy, glaring, glitzy, impudent, loud, meretricious, naked, obtrusive, ostentatious, outright, overbold, overt, plain, prominent, pronounced, protrusive, screaming, shameless, sheer, showy, snazzy, unabashed, unblushing, unmitigated
Notes: flagrant implies shocking and reprehensible, while blatant is obvious, contrived, and usually obnoxious; flagrant is a stronger term than blatant
Antonyms: inconspicuous, quiet, subtle, unpronounced
Main Entry: bombastic
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: pompous, grandiloquent
Synonyms: aureate, balderdash, big-talking, declamatory, euphuistic, flowery, full of hot air, fustian, grandiose, high-flown, highfalutin, histrionic, inflated, loudmouthed, magniloquent, orotund, ostentatious, overblown, ranting, rhapsodic, rhetorical, sonorous, stuffed shirt, swollen, tumid, turgid, verbose, windbag, windy, wordy
Antonyms: humble, quiet, reserved, restrained
Main Entry: camp
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: consciously affecting the unfashionable, weird, or bizarre
Synonyms: Daliesque, affected, arch, artificial, avant-garde, far out, in, mannered, mod, ostentatious, pop, posturing, wild
Main Entry: elaborate
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: intricate; involved
Synonyms: busy, careful, complex, complicated, decorated, detailed, elegant, embellished, exact, extensive, extravagant, fancy, fussy, garnished, high tech, highly wrought, imposing, knotty, labored, labyrinthine, luxurious, many-faceted, minute, ornamented, ornate, ostentatious, overdone, overworked, painstaking, perfected, plush, posh, precise, prodigious, refined, showy, skillful, sophisticated, studied, thorough, with all the extras, with all the options, with bells and whistles
Antonyms: general, normal, plain, regular, simple, uncomplicated, unelaborate, uninvolved, usual
Main Entry: elegant
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: beautiful, tasteful
Synonyms: affected, appropriate, apt, aristocratic, artistic, august, chic, choice, classic, clever, comely, courtly, cultivated, cultured, dainty, delicate, dignified, effective, exquisite, fancy, fashionable, fine, genteel, graceful, grand, handsome, ingenious, luxurious, majestic, modish, neat, nice, noble, opulent, ornamented, ornate, ostentatious, overdone, polished, rare, recherché, refined, rich, select, simple, stately, stuffy, stylish, stylized, sumptuous, superior, turgid, well-bred
Antonyms: crude, inelegant, rough, ugly, unfashionable, unrefined, unsophisticated, untasteful
Main Entry: extravagant
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: indulgent, wasteful
Synonyms: absurd, bizarre, costly, crazy, exaggerated, excessive, exorbitant, expensive, extortionate, extreme, fanciful, fancy, fantastic, flamboyant, flashy, foolish, garish, gaudy, grandiose, immoderate, implausible, improvident, imprudent, inordinate, lavish, ludicrous, nonsensical, ornate, ostentatious, outrageous, overpriced, preposterous, pretentious, prodigal, profligate, reckless, ridiculous, showy, silly, spendthrift, steep, unbalanced, unconscionable, unreasonable, unrestrained
Antonyms: close, economical, moderate, provident, reasonable, saving, stingy, thrifty, unpretentious
Main Entry: fancy
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: extravagant, ornamental
Synonyms: adorned, baroque, beautifying, chichi*, complicated, cushy, custom, decorated, decorative, deluxe, elaborate, elegant, embellished, fanciful, florid, frilly, froufrou, garnished, gaudy, gingerbread, intricate, lavish, ornate, ostentatious, resplendent, rich, rococo, showy, special, spiffy, sumptuous, unusual
Antonyms: plain, unfancy, unornamented
Main Entry: flagrant
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: flaunting, blatant; without shame
Synonyms: arrant, atrocious, awful, bare-faced, bold, brazen, capital, conspicuous, crying, disgraceful, dreadful, egregious, enormous, flagitous, flaming, flashy*, glaring, grody, gross*, hanging out, heinous, immodest, infamous, noticeable, notorious, obvious, open, ostentatious, out-and-out, outrageous, rank, scandalous, shameful, shameless, shocking, stick out like sore thumb, striking, undisguised, wicked
Notes: flagrant implies shocking and reprehensible, while blatant is obvious, contrived, and usually obnoxious; flagrant is a stronger term than blatant
Antonyms: concealed, disguised, hidden, mild, moral, restrained, secret
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