flamboyant

Speech parts

1. flamboyant - Noun

2. flamboyant - Adjective

3. flamboyant - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Characterized by waving or flamelike curves, as in the tracery of windows, etc.; -- said of the later (15th century) French Gothic style.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

showy florid splashy aureate rococo baroque chichi gilt oratorical flowery gaudy histrionic tawdry flasher affected

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Antonyms

spartan bally coy clavier common average

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Hypernyms

flowering tree angiospermous tree

Phrases with the word

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Examples

I've always regarded eroticism as a beautiful word. I'm not ashamed to be linked to it. I would be ashamed to be linked to flamboyant sexuality; that's a part of life, but it isn't all of it. Martha Graham

The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage. Aneurin Bevan

The problem with suicide is that it seems so flamboyant. It's camp. You have to be a bit of a drama queen to ever seriously consider it. Craig Ferguson

Anytime you get men in glitter, it's a flamboyant occasion! Johnny Weir

It is the misfortune of small, precise men always to hanker after large and flamboyant women. Agatha Christie

I would wear flamboyant clothes and long hair, and most singers at the time didn't. Little Richard

Close letter words and terms

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