flamboyant

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: flam=boy=ant

CIDE DICTIONARY

flamboyant, a. [F.].

 Characterized by waving or flamelike curves, as in the tracery of windows, etc.; -- said of the later (15th century) French Gothic style.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

flamboyant, adj.
1 ostentatious; showy.
2 floridly decorated.
3 gorgeously coloured.
4 Archit. (of decoration) marked by wavy flamelike lines.

Derivative

flamboyance n. flamboyancy n. flamboyantly adv.

Etymology

F (in Archit. sense), pres. part. of flamboyer f. flambe: see FLAMBEAU

THESAURUS

flamboyant

Gongoresque, Johnsonian, affected, arabesque, baroque, bedazzling, bedizened, big-sounding, blinding, bright, bright and shining, brilliant, busy, chichi, convoluted, dashing, dazzling, declamatory, decorated, effulgent, elaborate, elegant, elevated, embellished, euphuistic, extravagant, fancy, fine, flaming, flashy, flaunting, florid, flowery, frilly, fulgent, fulgid, fulsome, fussy, garish, gaudy, glaring, glary, grandiloquent, grandiose, grandisonant, high, high-flowing, high-flown, high-flying, high-sounding, high-wrought, highfalutin, inkhorn, jaunty, labored, labyrinthine, lexiphanic, lofty, lurid, luscious, luxuriant, luxurious, magniloquent, meretricious, moresque, ornamented, ornate, orotund, ostentatious, overdone, overelaborate, overelegant, overinvolved, overlabored, overworked, overwrought, peacockish, peacocky, pedantic, picturesque, pompous, pretentious, pretty-pretty, rakish, refulgent, resplendent, rhetorical, rich, rococo, sensational, sensationalistic, sententious, showy, sonorous, splashy, splendent, splendid, splendorous, stilted, swank, swashbuckling, tall, tortuous, vivid, wide