Antonyms for flamboyant
flæmˈbɔɪ əntflam·boy·ant

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1. royal poinciana, flamboyant, flame tree, peacock flower, Delonix regia, Poinciana regiaadjective

   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

   Antonyms:
   unpretending, unpretentious, unostentatious, plain

   Synonyms:
   mimosa bush, flame tree, flame durrajong, huisache, scented wattle, fire tree, sweet wattle, cassie, broad-leaved bottletree, royal poinciana, sweet acacia, peacock flower

2. flamboyant, showy, splashyadjective

   marked by ostentation but often tasteless

   "a cheap showy rhinestone bracelet"; "a splashy half-page ad"

   Antonyms:
   unpretentious, unostentatious, plain, unpretending

   Synonyms:
   flashy, showy, splashy, jazzy, aureate, sporty, glossy, gaudy, florid

3. aureate, florid, flamboyantadjective

   elaborately or excessively ornamented

   "flamboyant handwriting"; "the senator's florid speech"

   Antonyms:
   unpretentious, plain, unpretending, unostentatious

   Synonyms:
   gilded, showy, splashy, sanguine, aureate, golden, gold, rubicund, gilt, ruddy, florid

How to use flamboyant in a sentence?

1. Ernest Bai Koroma:

   This is the festive season where Sierra Leoneans often celebrate with families in a flamboyant and joyous manner, but all must be reminded that our country is at war with a vicious enemy.

2. Ernest Bai Koroma:

   This is the festive season where Sierra Leoneans often celebrate with families in a flamboyant and joyous manner but all must be reminded that our country is at war with a vicious enemy.

3. Harry Vincent:

   My appeal board consisted of one very flamboyant male teacher and the head of the inclusiveness and diversity department, it wasn’t a very unbiased board at all that heard my case.

4. Noel Monk:

   Eddie was having a lot of problems at that time, after they got married, he had drank too much, he had done too much. They went from the church to the reception. It was a beautiful mansion with wonderful people, but I couldn’t find Eddie. I couldn’t find Valerie. So I went looking for them and found them in the bathroom upstairs… Valerie was soothing him. It was certainly understandable. It didn’t impact their marriage. It certainly didn’t dictate the way things might turned out.’ The marriage lasted for almost two decades until their divorce in 2007, but the band was crumbling much sooner than that. There were mountains of cocaine and ever-flowing booze involved, but Van Halen was also led by a flamboyant singer with a fearsome Jekyll and Hyde personality. David Lee Roth in London. (Courtesy of Noel Monk).

5. Vladimir Putin:

   He is a very flamboyant man, very talented, no doubt about that. But it’s not our business to judge his merits, it’s up to the voters of the United States, he is an absolute leader of the presidential race, as we see it today. He says that he wants to move to another level relations, a deeper level of relations with Russia.

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