Definitions for showy

showy show·y

Spelling: [shoh-ee]
IPA: /ˈʃoʊ i/

Showy is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 39 anagrams from letters in showy (hoswy).

Definitions for showy

adjective

  1. making an imposing display:
  2. pompous; ostentatious; gaudy.

Origin of showy

First recorded in 1705-15; show + -y1

Examples for showy

It was a cheap lot, cheap and showy, and it fetched jolly little.

Flowers large, showy, 5-parted (Hollyhock-shaped), in late summer.

Pretty, odd and showy, but by no means as superb a flower as some of the others.

But that category is full of showy performances, and George is not the showboating role in that play.

One pollster said a showy pregnancy could just “annoy people.”

It was flamboyant and showy; cheap, and tawdrily pretentious.

The category gives actors the chance to do showy, attention-grabbing work, stepping into ready-made characters.

Often cultivated for the showy clusters of berries in autumn.

The showy accoutrements of state power have replaced the vestments of resistance.

And yet, many of her sentences struck me as showy, or straining toward cleverness.

Word Value for showy
Scrable

14

Words with friends

12

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