[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

showy \show"y\, a. compar. showier; superl. showiest.
   making a show; attracting attention; presenting a marked
   appearance; ostentatious; gay; gaudy.
   1913 webster

         a present of everything that was rich and showy.
                                                  --addison.
   1913 webster

   syn: splendid; gay; gaudy; gorgeous; fine; magnificent;
        grand; stately; sumptuous; pompous.
        1913 webster
see also:
showier showiest 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

showy
     adj 1: marked by conspicuous display; "a cheap showy rhinestone
            bracelet"; "a splashy half-page ad" syn: splashy
     2: elaborately or excessively ornamented; "flamboyant
        handwriting"; "the senator's florid speech" syn: aureate,
         florid, flamboyant
     3: marked by extravagant display
     4: used especially of clothes marked by conspicuous display
        syn: flashy, gaudy, jazzy, sporty
     also: showiest, showier
see also:
splashy aureate florid flamboyant flashy gaudy 
jazzy sporty showiest showier 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

90 moby thesaurus words for "showy":
   byzantine, gongoresque, johnsonian, affected, arabesque, baroque,
   bedizened, big-sounding, brave, bravura, braw, chichi, conspicuous,
   convoluted, daring, dashing, declamatory, dressy, elaborate,
   elevated, euphuistic, exhibitionistic, fancy, flamboyant, flaming,
   flashing, flashy, flaunting, florid, frilly, frothy, fulsome,
   fussy, gallant, garish, gaudy, gay, glittering, gorgeous,
   grandiloquent, grandiose, grandisonant, high-flowing, high-flown,
   high-flying, high-sounding, highfalutin, inkhorn, intricate,
   jaunty, jazzy, labyrinthine, lexiphanic, lofty, lurid, luxurious,
   magniloquent, meretricious, opulent, ornate, orotund, ostentatious,
   overdone, overelaborate, overinvolved, overwrought, peacockish,
   peacocky, pedantic, pompous, pretentious, rakish, resplendent,
   rhetorical, rococo, sensational, sensationalistic, sententious,
   show-off, snazzy, sonorous, splashy, splurgy, sporty, stilted,
   sumptuous, swank, tall, tawdry, tortuous

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