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Flamboyant vs Catchy - What's the difference?

flamboyant | catchy |

As adjectives the difference between flamboyant and catchy

is that flamboyant is showy, bold or audacious in behaviour, appearance, etc while catchy is instantly appealing and memorable (of a tune or phrase).

As a noun flamboyant

is a showy tropical tree, the royal poinciana (delonix regia ).

flamboyant

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Showy, bold or audacious in behaviour, appearance, etc.
  • * 1902 , ,
  • When we see some of the monstrous and flamboyant blossoms that enrich the equatorial woods, we do not feel that they are conflagrations of nature; silent explosions of her frightful energy. We simply find it hard to believe that they are not wax flowers grown under a glass case.
  • * 1920 , , Chapter VI: The Question of Clearness,
  • But a scorn of flamboyant neckties and checkerboard trousers is no excuse for going to the opposite extreme of a blue flannel shirt and overalls; .
  • * 1962 May 12, ,
  • The unbelievers will say they are but words, but a slogan, but a flamboyant phrase.
  • (architecture) Referred to as the final stage of French Gothic architecture from the 14th to the 16th centuries.
  • * 1891 , , Chapter XIX: Avignon,
  • S. Pierre is a flamboyant church, the details passing into Renaissance.
  • * 1911 , ,
  • The second is a chapel of two storeys, the lower dating from 1150, while the upper was rebuilt in the 15th century, and there is a rich Flamboyant entrance with a stairway (1533).
  • * 1913 , ,
  • The nave and central tower, more flamboyant in design, were finished early in the sixteenth century after the original plan.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A showy tropical tree, the royal poinciana (Delonix regia )
  • * 1919 ,
  • The schooners moored to the quay are trim and neat, the little town along the bay is white and urbane, and the flamboyants , scarlet against the blue sky, flaunt their colour like a cry of passion.

    catchy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Instantly appealing and memorable (of a tune or phrase).
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2012 , date=June 3 , author=Nathan Rabin , title=TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Mr. Plow” (season 4, episode 9; originally aired 11/19/1992) citation , page= , passage=The best of friends become the worst of enemies when Barney makes a hilarious attack ad where he viciously pummels a cardboard cut-out of Homer before special guest star Linda Ronstadt joins the fun to both continue the attack on the helpless Homer stand-in and croon a slanderously accurate, insanely catchy jingle about how “Mr. Plow is a loser/And I think he is a boozer.” }}