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Flamboyant

Flamboyant Meaning & Definition
Flamboyant Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Flamboyant?

[n] showy tropical tree or shrub native to Madagascar; widely planted in tropical regions for its immense racemes of scarlet and orange flowers; sometimes placed in genus Poinciana
[adj] richly and brilliantly colorful
[adj] elaborately or excessively ornamented; "flamboyant handwriting"; "the senator's florid speech"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Flamboyant: aureate | colorful | Delonix regia | fancy | flame tree | florid | peacock flower | Poinciana regia | resplendent | royal poinciana | showy | unrestrained

Related Terms | Find terms related to Flamboyant: 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 | Gongoresque | grandiloquent | grandiose | grandisonant | high | highfalutin | high-flowing | high-flown | high-flying | high-sounding | high-wrought | inkhorn | jaunty | Johnsonian | 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

See Also | angiospermous tree | Delonix | flowering tree | genus Delonix

Flamboyant In Webster's Dictionary

\Flam*boy"ant\, a. [F.] (Arch.) Characterized by waving or flamelike curves, as in the tracery of windows, etc.; -- said of the later (15th century) French Gothic style.

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