FLAMBOYANTLY Synonyms: 50 Similar and Opposite Words

flamboyantly

adverb

Definition of flamboyantly

as in ostentatiously

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Recent Examples of flamboyantly Rooms are decorated with minibars crafted in Jaipur, flamboyantly upholstered chairs, Murano-glass chandeliers, and marbled wallpaper sourced and crafted in Italy. — Clare Coulson, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Sep. 2026 Sister Daphne belongs to the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, an LGBTQ+ group made up mostly of people who dress flamboyantly as nuns. — ABC News, 25 July 2026 The experience of the drink is composed, elegant even, a sophisticated push and pull subtlety and counterbalance, but the list of ingredients reads, to me, to be almost flamboyantly random. — Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 11 July 2026 And Cayden Alley is endearing and playful as Damian, the school’s most flamboyantly gay student. — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 June 2026 Egerton, by contrast, gets to grandstand a bit more flamboyantly. — Guy Lodge, Variety, 23 Apr. 2026 Across medieval Europe, aristocrats repeatedly set off fashion fads and scandals by wearing poulaines, shoes whose flamboyantly elongated pointed toes could stretch far beyond the natural length of their feet. — Leah Asmelash, CNN Money, 13 Mar. 2026 In his social orbit are a flamboyantly gay colleague played by Mason Gooding and a roommate questioning her own sexuality, played by Chase Sui Wonders. — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 28 Jan. 2026 The novel keeps the illusion running with great skill, but it’s also flamboyantly patterned, in ways both large and small. — Christopher Tayler, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for flamboyantly

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Bryan Fuller’s expressionistic procedural is ostentatiously gruesome, yes, but the increasingly disturbing interplay between Will and Hannibal — cat and mouse, will-they/won’t they — is a full course meal on its own.

— Matt Cabral, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Apr. 2026
In her closet were seven Ungaros, three Rykiels, a Kamali bathing suit and a Kamali sleeping-bag coat, five Kenzo dresses, two pieces from the Ballets Russes collection of Saint Laurent—all of which were trades or payments in kind, none of them mothballed, but instead worn ostentatiously and often.

— Han Ong, New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2026

Definition of ostentatiously

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For example, researchers need to know how far away a bird is when making a call because distance affects how loud the call sounds.

— Amarachi Orie, CNN Money, 29 Sep. 2026
To do this transparently, visibly and with empathy, the trick is to give people the floor to talk out loud.

— Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of loud

Adverb

Jeon Do-yeon, who plays the family’s matriarch, is colorfully slinky as a globe-trotting party widow, a vain, compulsively seductive narcissist who macks on her daughters’ men like a Real Housewife given a villain’s edit.

— Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 24 Sep. 2026
Fans of tiki bars, their goal was a web series, one that looked at the colorfully decorative tropical bars in Southern California.

— Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of colorfully

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The votes were loudly jeered by protesters who had gathered nearby.

— Joseph Wilson, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2026
But after being injected with two ostensibly lethal doses of pentobarbital, Pike was still alive, snoring loudly as journalists selected to witness the execution glanced at one another, wondering what was happening.

— Dakin Andone, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of loudly

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The humble barcode has done its job brilliantly for 50 years, says Kate Hardcastle, business strategist and author of The Science of Shopping.

— HubSpot, HubSpot, 1 Oct. 2026
Trey Gibson pitched brilliantly into the seventh inning and the Baltimore Orioles beat the Toronto Blue Jays 4-2 on Wednesday night to sweep a doubleheader and at least temporarily stay alive in the American League playoff race.

— ABC News, ABC News, 23 Sep. 2026

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