adjective
definition
(sometimes derogatory) calling attention; flashy; standing out to the eye
Examples of showy in a Sentence
Another, Daniel Neal, in 1720, found Boston conversation " as polite as in most of the cities and towns in England, many of their merchants having the advantage of a free conversation with travellers; so that a gentleman from London would almost think himself at home at Boston, when he observes the number of people, their houses, their furniture, their tables, their dress and conversation, which perhaps is as splendid and showy as that of the most considerable tradesmen in London."
They are freegrowing shrubs with showy bell-shaped flowers, and are favourite greenhouse plants.
The flowers are frequently large and showy, and are generally attractive from their high colouring.
Oh, the showy American cousins, they do love a parade.
The most characteristic members of the order are twining plants with generally smooth heart-shaped leaves and large showy white or purple flowers, as, for instance, the greater bindweed of English hedges, Calystegia sepium, and many species of the genus Ipomaea, the largest of the order, including the "convolvulus major" of gardens, and morning glory.
As garden plants the Phyllocacti are amongst the most ornamental of the whole family, being of easy culture, free blooming and remarkably showy, the colour of the flowers ranging from rich crimson, through rosepink to creamy white.
The prairies of the more humid regions are covered with valuable grasses, and with masses of showy native flowers, which bloom from spring to autumn.
On the promenade of the court there circulated in a long file ceaselessly during fashionable hours five or six hundred carriages, the servants in showy liveries.
His work, like most of the work done by Englishmen in India in time of peace, was not of a showy kind - its value is shown by the fact that he was asked to prolong his services beyond the regular term of five years, and returned to England only in 1869.
Handsome border plants, the tall stems crowned by racemes of showy hooded flowers.
Showy rockwork or front row border plants of easy culture in any light soil; the plants should be frequently renewed from cuttings.
Handsome liliaceous plants, with fleshy roots, erect stems, and showy flowers, thriving in any good garden soil.
Stout growing showy composites for late summer and autumn flowering, requiring rich deep soil, and not to be often disturbed.
They flower in early spring, and all have a fine appearance when in bloom, on account of their large showy umbels of yellow flowers.
Showy composite plants, thriving in good garden soil.
Showy border flowers, mostly growing to a height of i 2 or 2 ft., having deeply cut leaves, and abundant saucershaped blossoms of considerable size.
All large-flowered and showy, but require a little protection in winter.
Free-blooming, showy scrophulariaceous plants, thriving best in moist situations.
The genus of the Evening Primrose, consisting of showy species, all of which grow and blossom freely in rich deep soils.
Bold and showy labiates, growing in ordinary soil.
Rather coarse-growing but showy boraginaceous plants, succeeding in ordinary soil.
Showy ranunculaceous plants, of free growth, flowering about May and June.
Sow fragrant or showy annuals to flower in pots during winter; and grow on a set of decorative plants for the same object.
They are annual and perennial erect herbs containing a milky juice, with lobed or cut leaves and generally long-stalked regular showy flowers, which are nodding in the bud stage.
C. Crus-Galli, with a somewhat similar distribution and introduced about the same time, is a very decorative species with showy, bright red fruit, often remaining on the branches till spring, and leaves assuming a brilliant scarlet and orange in the autumn; numerous varieties are in cultivation.
Above these rise the towers of the Roman Catholic cathedral, the high curved roofs of the royal audience halls, the palace gateways, and the showy buildings of the Russian and French legations.
To obtain these money had been necessary; and to raise money the pasha had instituted those internal "reforms" - the bizarre system of state monopolies and the showy experiments in new native industries which are described in the article Egypt (q.v.).
Wars were conducted on a showy system by means of mercenaries, who played a safe game in the field and developed a system of bloodless campaigns.
This defeat proved a great mortification to Lord Chatham, and in his irritation against Townshend for this blow, as well as for some acts of insubordination, he meditated the removal of his showy colleague.
The flowers are regular and rather showy, generally with three greenish sepals, followed in regular succession by three white or purplish petals, six to indefinite stamens and six to indefinite free carpels.
Considering the perverted taste of the age, it is perhaps fortunate that the task fell into the hands of no showy declaimer who measured his success by his skill in making surface do duty for substance, but of homely, matter-of-fact scribes, whose sole concern was to record what they knew.
In most respects he was a perfect exponent of the ideals and foibles of his age, and when he broke a promise or repudiated a debt he was but displaying the less satisfactory side of the habitual morality of the 14th century the chivalry of which was often deficient in the less showy virtues.
But the fighting was all on Scottish ground, and Edward repeatedly made incursions, showy if not effective, into the very heart of the northern realm; on one occasion he reached Inverness unopposed.
He was not a showy, hardly even a prominent politician, but effected far more than many more conspicuous men.
The petals are usually showy, and normally alternate with the sepals.
In pelargonium the flowers have been rendered larger and more showy; and such is FIG.
The bogs support unusual plants species such as the insectivorous sundews and pale butterwort, the showy bog asphodel and early marsh orchid.
The flowers are not particularly showy, although the berry-like drupes can be, when not hidden by the foliage.
But this stylistic eclecticism is not random or pointlessly showy.
Large showy blooms ideal in patio containers will tolerate moderate spring frosts.
Outside she decided her showy black number was a definite non-starter.
The showy cornfield annuals are now a relative rarity in the wild due to ' advances ' in crop weed control.
I think it fair to say that they are interesting rather than particularly showy plants.
Avoid anything too showy - remember - less is more.
It's a shrub grown for its foliage, as its tiny, greenish white flowers are not showy.
Charles's was not a great character, and of qualities rather showy than solid.
The directors of the other films took distinctive, even showy, approaches to their subjects.
This is Actinidia kolomikta, a species from the Far East which has this extraordinary natural leaf variegation as showy as any flower.
Like all-in wrestling too it gives fairly great openings for showy acting.
He is said to have been vain and fat, and to have been so fond of display that he was nicknamed Pompicus, or the Showy (unless the epithet refers to his literary style).