Usually means: Attracting attention through striking appearance.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word showy:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. showy: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. showy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. showy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. showy: Collins English Dictionary
  5. showy: Vocabulary.com
  6. Showy, showy: Wordnik
  7. showy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. showy: Wiktionary
  9. showy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. showy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. showy: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. showy: Dictionary.com
  13. showy: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Showy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. showy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. showy: Rhymezone
  17. Showy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. showy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. showy: Free Dictionary
  20. showy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. showy: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. showy: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. showy: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. showy: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. showy: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See showier as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (sometimes derogatory) Calling attention; flashy; standing out to the eye.
adjective:  Making a striking or aesthetically pleasing display.
adjective:  (informal, chiefly of a literary work) Inclined to showing (by conveying an impression so that events are described in the narrative), instead of telling (by explicitly stating facts).

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