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Synonyms for flamboyant
flæmˈbɔɪ əntflam·boy·ant
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Princeton's WordNet
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
Synonyms:
mimosa bush, flame tree, flame durrajong, huisache, scented wattle, fire tree, sweet wattle, cassie, broad-leaved bottletree, royal poinciana, sweet acacia, peacock flowerAntonyms:
unpretending, unpretentious, unostentatious, plainflamboyant, showy, splashyadjective
marked by ostentation but often tasteless
"a cheap showy rhinestone bracelet"; "a splashy half-page ad"
Synonyms:
flashy, showy, splashy, jazzy, aureate, sporty, glossy, gaudy, floridAntonyms:
unpretentious, unostentatious, plain, unpretendingaureate, florid, flamboyantadjective
elaborately or excessively ornamented
"flamboyant handwriting"; "the senator's florid speech"
Synonyms:
gilded, showy, splashy, sanguine, aureate, golden, gold, rubicund, gilt, ruddy, floridAntonyms:
unpretentious, plain, unpretending, unostentatious
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#740 | gold | |
#2338 | golden | |
#13717 | glossy | |
#23717 | sporty | |
#24162 | gilt | |
#27580 | cassie | |
#28916 | jazzy | |
#33469 | flashy | |
#34015 | extravagant | |
#34679 | gilded | |
#45745 | ruddy | |
#47898 | flamboyant | |
#53694 | showy | |
#58570 | sanguine | |
#59182 | gaudy | |
#89699 | florid | |
#101092 | splashy | |
#216212 | aureate |
How to use flamboyant in a sentence?
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.
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).
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.
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.
Today, the sunny, flamboyant promises of better health care at a lower cost during a political campaign gave way to the cold, dark realities of politics in America.
Translations for flamboyant
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- لامعArabic
- ярък, цветист, пищенBulgarian
- flamantCatalan, Valencian
- flamboyantDanish
- extravagantGerman
- exuberante, extravaganteSpanish
- mahtaileva, prameaFinnish
- flamboyant, extravagantFrench
- चमकीलाHindi
- stravaganteItalian
- 華やかなJapanese
- extravagant, flamboyantDutch
- extravagantePortuguese
- flamboiantRomanian
- цветистый, пламенеющий, огненное дерево, напыщенный, яркий, делоникс королевский, эпатажныйRussian
- GTurkish
- فیمبائنٹUrdu
- Hoa phượngVietnamese
- 龙飞凤舞Chinese
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