Showy is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SHOWY in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• making a brilliant display
• having a striking appearance or style, typically by being excessively bright, colourful, or ostentatious
• Making a show; attracting attention; presenting a marked appearance; ostentatious; gay; gaudy.
• marked by ostentation but often tasteless
• displaying brilliance and virtuosity
• (used especially of clothes) marked by conspicuous display
• superficially attractive and stylish; suggesting wealth or expense
• gaudy
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• making a great or brilliant display

Words related to SHOWY

dashy12 gaudy10 showier13 showiest14 showily16 showiness15 zooty17

Words that contain SHOWY

unshowy16 showyard18 showyards19

How to use SHOWY in a sentence

• Both its leaves and stems are so slender as to be nearly invisible, at a distance of a few yards, amid so showy a multitude of flowers.
• When favourably situated, it often reaches 6 feet in height, with three-lobed, neatly-toothed leaves, and with large, showy blossoms that are borne towards the end of summer.
• The scarlet fruits are arranged in clusters, and when fully ripe are both showy and interesting.
• The small, creamy-white flowers of this plant are not particularly showy, but the scarlet berries are more conspicuous in September and October.
• The fruit is large and showy, and of a deep purplish-red colour.
• This is a handsome, fast-growing tree, and one that is particularly valuable for its ample foliage, and distinct and showy flowers.
• When we had been ten days in our showy barracks we began to quarrel with luxury.
• When the male and female varieties are planted together, the latter produce an abundance of large red berries, rendering the plant very showy and ornamental.
• For the garments he had worn, others were substituted of finer quality, and more showy appearance.
• Cappadocia and Africa were also granted new privileges, as showy as they were short-lived.
• But what interested the children most were the wooden animals that made up the more showy part of the merry-go-round.
• The other maidens and Claw-of-the-Eagle were given presents also, but less showy ones.
• But it was not at all showy, only comfortable and large.
• I happened to be at an angle of the field as the royal party, surrounded by a showy group of marshals and generals, passed, and when there seemed to be a little confusion.
• The front of the engine house can be formed of wood, covered with cloth, and painted in showy colors.
• A few showy bound books and a small bust may be placed on the table.
• Her dress was hardly more showy, for she was but a school-girl, but it fitted her more gracefully.
• It was neither showy nor attractive, such work as this, but it was very vital, and it was done.
• For a moment they stood still and I saw the girl had on low shoes and a shabby coat which had once been showy.
• We try to persuade ourselves that showy living is essential life.
• At Williams College, a term by which is designated a showy recitation.
• Let good manners, keen intelligence, bright and entertaining conversation take the place of the showy but frequently uncomfortable houses and wholesale entertainments of to-day.
• Of these the finest is a new Cochlospermum, a low-spreading tree, nearly leafless at this time, but covered with clusters of very large and showy golden blossoms.
• Over her showy dress she wore a long opera-cloak, so that at first her splendors were not fully visible.
• Phuh! What does she mean by sending that showy thing to me? LUCAS.
• They must, also, have showy furniture for their friends to look at.

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