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Definition of flash

adjective:

• tastelessly showy; "a flash car", "a flashy ring", "garish colors", "a gaudy costume", "loud sport shirts", "a meretricious yet stylish book", "tawdry ornaments". Synonyms: brassy, cheap, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy.

noun:

• a sudden intense burst of radiant energy.
• a momentary brightness.
• a short vivid experience; "a flash of emotion swept over him", "the flashings of pain were a warning". Synonyms: flashing.
• a sudden brilliant understanding; "he had a flash of intuition".
• a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat); "if I had the chance I'd do it in a flash". Synonyms: New York minute, blink of an eye, heartbeat, instant, jiffy, split second, trice, twinkling, wink.
• a gaudy outward display. Synonyms: fanfare, ostentation.
• a burst of light used to communicate or illuminate. Synonyms: flare.
• a short news announcement concerning some on-going news story. Synonyms: news bulletin, newsbreak, newsflash.
• a bright patch of color used for decoration or identification; "red flashes adorned the airplane", "a flash sewn on his sleeve indicated the unit he belonged to".
• a lamp for providing momentary light to take a photograph. Synonyms: flash bulb, flash lamp, flashbulb, flashgun, photoflash.

verb:

• gleam or glow intermittently; "The lights were flashing". Synonyms: blink, twinkle, wink, winkle.
• appear briefly; "The headlines flashed on the screen".
• display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously; "he showed off his new sports car". Synonyms: flaunt, ostentate, show off, swank.
• make known or cause to appear with great speed; "The latest intelligence is flashed to all command posts".
• run or move very quickly or hastily; "She dashed into the yard". Synonyms: dart, dash, scoot, scud, shoot.
• expose or show briefly; "he flashed a $100 bill".
• protect by covering with a thin sheet of metal; "flash the roof".
• emit a brief burst of light; "A shooting star flashed and was gone".

Related words

bluster, bravado, coruscation, exhibitionism, flex, flick, flicker, gleam, gleaming, glimmer, glint, glitter, lightning, pedantry, plunge, ritz, spark, sparkle, splurge, streak.

Words nearby

clash, flashy, flask, flesh, flush, lash, plash, slash.

Rhymes with

abash, asch, ash, ashe, bash, brash, cache, cash, clash, crash, dash, gash, gnash, hash, lash, mash, nash, rash, rehash, sash.