From en.wiktionary.org:
** English
*** Alternative forms
- [en]
*** Etymology
From [en].[1]
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Adjective
[er]
1. [en] Calling attention ; flashy ; standing out to the eye.
2. Making a striking or aesthetically pleasing display.
3. [en] Inclined to showing (by convey ing an impression so that event s are describe d in the narrative ), instead of telling (by explicit ly stating fact s).
4. * [en]
5. * {{ quote-newsgroup | en | date=2003-09-19 | author=
Patrick Null|title=Failed Sept Challenge? (1409
words)|newsgroup=alt.fiction.original|url=https://groups.google.com/g/alt.fiction.original/c/p_RJEX7R12Q/m/2thpPhBU5GMJ|text=There's
a way to make this more SHOWY and less telly. It's like you're in a hurry to
get on with the rest of the story.}}
1. * [en]
2. * [en]
3. * [en]
**** Synonyms
- Thesaurus:gaudy
**** Hyponyms
- [en]
**** Derived terms
{{col|en |showily |showiness |showy goatsbeard |showy mistletoe |showy orchis
|showy sundew }}
**** Translations
[for show]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de] , [de]
- Irish: [ga] , [ga]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk] , [mk] , [mk] , [mk] , [mk]
- Persian: [fa] [of people]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt] [derogatory]
- Russian: [ru] [bright] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru] [tasteless] , [ru] [motley] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] [Spain, colloquial] , [es]
- Tagalog: [tl] , [tl]
[trans-bottom]
[making a striking or aesthetically pleasing display]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Irish: [ga]
- Spanish: [es]
[trans-bottom]
*** References
References:
[1]. [pos=adj]
*** Anagrams
- [en]
[en]