| tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments"
Synonyms: brassy, cheap, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy,
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| appear briefly; "The headlines flashed on the screen"
| | emit a brief burst of light; "A shooting star flashed and was gone"
| | make known or cause to appear with great speed; "The latest intelligence is flashed to all command posts"
| | protect by covering with a thin sheet of metal; "flash the roof"
| | run or move very quickly or hastily; "She dashed into the yard"
Synonyms: dart, dash, scoot, scud, shoot,
| | expose or show briefly; "he flashed a $100 bill"
| | display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously; "he showed off his new sports car"
Synonyms: flaunt, show off, ostentate, swank,
| | gleam or glow intermittently; "The lights were flashing"
Synonyms: blink, wink, twinkle, winkle,
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| a lamp for providing momentary light to take a photograph
Synonyms: photoflash, flash lamp, flashgun, flashbulb, flash bulb,
| | a bright patch of color used for decoration or identification; "red flashes adorned the airplane"; "a flash sewn on his sleeve indicated the unit he belonged to"
| | a momentary brightness
| | a sudden brilliant understanding; "he had a flash of intuition"
| | a short news announcement concerning some on-going news story
Synonyms: news bulletin, newsflash, newsbreak,
| | a burst of light used to communicate or illuminate
Synonyms: flare,
| | a gaudy outward display
Synonyms: ostentation, fanfare,
| | a short vivid experience; "a flash of emotion swept over him"; "the flashings of pain were a warning"
Synonyms: flashing,
| | a sudden intense burst of radiant energy
| | a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat); "if I had the chance I''d do it in a flash"
Synonyms: blink of an eye, heartbeat, instant, jiffy, split second, trice, twinkling, wink, New York minute,
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