Flash
Flash noun - Excessive or unnecessary display.
Usage example: the expensive clothes, the luxury cars, and other apparent signs of success are all flash that belie the fact that the family is up to its ears in debt
Show is a synonym for flash in display topic. In some cases you can use "Show" instead the word "Flash" as a verb or a noun, when it comes to topics like burst, instant, demonstration, move fast and display.
Show
How words are described
| full | full flash | full show |
| long | long flash | long show |
| better | better flash | better show |
| similar | similar flash | similar show |
| Other adjectives: short, current, original, light, single, popular, real, little, dark, main, animated, famous, new, later, next, last, previous, magical. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Similarly, Mark Hamill, who appeared on the 90s show as the Trickster, played the Trickster yet again, but as an inmate for Iron Heights, where Barry's father, John Wesley Shipp who was the Flash from the 90s show, is also an inmate of Iron Heights.
Source: Series / The Flash (2014) - Venus Versus Virus's anime begins with a flash forward to the climax of the show.
Source: Flash Forward - Which then flash backed into an episode of The Jeffersons which was itself a clip show...
Source: Clip Show
Cite this Source
Show and Flash. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/flash/show
Flash & Show. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/flash/show>.
Show or Flash. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/flash/show.
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