What are some opposite words for flashy?
Antonyms for flashy
ˈflæʃ iflashy
This page is about all possible antonyms and opposite words for the term flashy.
Princeton's WordNet
brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashyadjective
tastelessly showy
"a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments"
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colorless, tasteful, colourlessSynonyms:
forte, crummy, brazen, brazen-faced, chintzy, ratty, audacious, specious, loud, punk, shabby, meretricious, jazzy, cheapjack, bodacious, inexpensive, tinny, bum, cheap, sleazy, trashy, brassy, insolent, gaudy, garish, tatty, shoddy, sporty, cheesy, tawdry, brasslike, moth-eaten, bald-faced, barefaced, gimcrack, chinchy, flash, showy, tacky, gilded, rubbishyflashy, gaudy, jazzy, showy, sportyadjective
(used especially of clothes) marked by conspicuous display
Antonyms:
colourless, colorless, tastefulSynonyms:
splashy, trashy, sporting, clean, meretricious, tacky, gimcrack, loud, garish, sporty, flamboyant, glossy, brassy, cheap, showy, tawdry, jazzy, flash, tatty, gaudy, sportsmanlike
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
flashyadjective
Synonyms:
dazzling, coruscant, gaudy, tawdry, meretricious showy
How to use flashy in a sentence?
The company is not flashy and doesn't try to generate a lot of buzz or press for every little thing it does, it doesn't get some of the notoriety, but I think the term that comes to mind is : built to last.
Buyers of commercial vans want reliability and not necessarily a flashy brand name, the reduced maintenance and fuel use of electric vehicles become very attractive to a business customer, where the current limitations of EVs make the price premium less attractive to individual consumers.
There remains this stubborn unwillingness to look beyond the big-dollar and take something less flashy until you can find that higher-paying job.
I think the President Joe Biden administration has tried to distinguish its North Korea policy by making the case that it's not interested in flashy summits or grand bargains, but that it wants to take a practical and calibrated approach to build towards the complete denuclearization of North Korea, i think the hang up, of course, is not so much Patricia Kim policy, but the fact that North Korea seems to have zero interest in talking about denuclearization.
Gov. Evers isn’t flashy, and he knows what people want isn’t ultimately flash. They want their highways repaired and their schools to teach their kids and their phones not to vibrate at 5 in the morning with something that’s going to stop them from going back to sleep, president Biden has the same thing going for him: decency and a sense of steady leadership rather than chaos and any kind of ideology that might be proceeded by the word ‘ultra.’.
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#30301 | tasteful | |
#33469 | flashy | |
#38890 | colorless | |
#77536 | colourless |
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