Immaculate vs Flamboyant - What's the difference?
immaculate | flamboyant |
Having no stain or blemish; spotless, undefiled, clear, pure.
Showy, bold or audacious in behaviour, appearance, etc.
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(architecture) Referred to as the final stage of French Gothic architecture from the 14th to the 16th centuries.
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A showy tropical tree, the royal poinciana (Delonix regia )
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As adjectives the difference between immaculate and flamboyant
is that immaculate is having no stain or blemish; spotless, undefiled, clear, pure while flamboyant is showy, bold or audacious in behaviour, appearance, etc.As a noun flamboyant is
a showy tropical tree, the royal poinciana (delonix regia ).immaculate
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Were but my soul as pure From other guilt as that, Heaven did not hold One more immaculate . —
- Thou sheer, immaculate and silver fountain. — Shakespeare, Richard II , V-iii.
Synonyms
* spotless * undefiled * unsulliedDerived terms
* Immaculate Conception * immaculately * immaculatenessflamboyant
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- 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.
- 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; .
- The unbelievers will say they are but words, but a slogan, but a flamboyant phrase.
- S. Pierre is a flamboyant church, the details passing into Renaissance.
- 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).
- The nave and central tower, more flamboyant in design, were finished early in the sixteenth century after the original plan.
Noun
(en noun)- 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.