SPLASHY (splashier, splashiest)

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Irregular inflected forms: splashier    , splashiest   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does splashy mean? 

• SPLASHY (adjective)
  The adjective SPLASHY has 3 senses:

1. characterized by water flying about haphazardly

2. marked by ostentation but often tasteless

3. covered with patches of bright color

  Familiarity information: SPLASHY used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPLASHY (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Characterized by water flying about haphazardly

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

splash (the sound like water splashing)

Derivation:

splash (the sound like water splashing)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Marked by ostentation but often tasteless

Synonyms:

flamboyant; showy; splashy

Context example:

a splashy half-page ad

Similar:

ostentatious; pretentious (intended to attract notice and impress others)

Derivation:

splash (a prominent or sensational but short-lived news event)

splashiness (lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Covered with patches of bright color

Similar:

covered (overlaid or spread or topped with or enclosed within something; sometimes used as a combining form)

Derivation:

splash (a patch of bright color)

 Context examples 

It led me aslant over the hill, through a wide bog, which would have been impassable in winter, and was splashy and shaking even now, in the height of summer.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)