[syn: aureate, florid, flamboyant]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Flamboyant \Flam*boy"ant\, a. [F.] (Arch.)
Characterized by waving or flamelike curves, as in the
tracery of windows, etc.; -- said of the later (15th century)
French Gothic style.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
flamboyant
adj 1: marked by ostentation but often tasteless; "a cheap showy
rhinestone bracelet"; "a splashy half-page ad" [syn:
flamboyant, showy, splashy]
2: elaborately or excessively ornamented; "flamboyant
handwriting"; "the senator's florid speech" [syn: aureate,
florid, flamboyant]
n 1: 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 [syn: royal poinciana, flamboyant, flame
tree, peacock flower, Delonix regia, Poinciana
regia]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
105 Moby Thesaurus words for "flamboyant":
Gongoresque, Johnsonian, affected, arabesque, baroque, bedazzling,
bedizened, big-sounding, blinding, bright, bright and shining,
brilliant, busy, chichi, convoluted, dashing, dazzling,
declamatory, decorated, effulgent, elaborate, elegant, elevated,
embellished, euphuistic, extravagant, fancy, fine, flaming, flashy,
flaunting, florid, flowery, frilly, fulgent, fulgid, fulsome,
fussy, garish, gaudy, glaring, glary, grandiloquent, grandiose,
grandisonant, high, high-flowing, high-flown, high-flying,
high-sounding, high-wrought, highfalutin, inkhorn, jaunty, labored,
labyrinthine, lexiphanic, lofty, lurid, luscious, luxuriant,
luxurious, magniloquent, meretricious, moresque, ornamented,
ornate, orotund, ostentatious, overdone, overelaborate,
overelegant, overinvolved, overlabored, overworked, overwrought,
peacockish, peacocky, pedantic, picturesque, pompous, pretentious,
pretty-pretty, rakish, refulgent, resplendent, rhetorical, rich,
rococo, sensational, sensationalistic, sententious, showy,
sonorous, splashy, splendent, splendid, splendorous, stilted,
swank, swashbuckling, tall, tortuous, vivid, wide