flashy

形容词 adj.
中文释义
发音 flăsh'ē

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Showy; visually impressive, attention-getting, or appealing.
    — The dancers wore flashy costumes featuring shiny sequins in many vibrant colors.
  2. Marked by frequent variations in water amount (compare flash flood).
    — Flow criteria were used for classification […] The criteria chosen were […] (4) the rate of change of flow with time (logged serial correlation coefficients are 0.2 in flashy rivers, but up to 0.98 in stable ones); and (5) the velocity associated with average daily flows (this varies from 1.03 m/s in flashy rivers to 0.08 m/s in lowland ones).
  3. Flashing; producing flashes. dated,poetic
    — a flashy light
  4. Drunk; tipsy. archaic
    — Indeed, he was 'dithguthted' at his condition; and if upon the occasion just described he had allowed himself to be somewhat 'intoxicated with liquor,' I must aver that I do not recollect another instance in which this worthy little gentleman suffered himself to be similarly overtaken. Now and then a little 'flashy' he might be, but nothing more serious—and rely upon it, this was no common virtue in those days.

词形变化

flashier comparative flashiest superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
flashily flashiness glimflashy unflashy

词源

Etymology tree
English flash
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English flashy
From flash + -y.
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