- 2. Parade, ostentation, flourish, dash, pomp, pageantry, splendor, display, ceremony.
- 3. Semblance, resemblance, likeness, external appearance.
- 4. Pretence, pretext, color, mask, simulation, speciousness, plausibility, illusion.
Showery, a. Rainy, wet.
Show fight. Take the offensive, lay about one.
Show off.
- 1. (Active.) Exhibit (ostentatiously), display, make a parade of, set off.
- 2. (Neuter.) Make a show, display one’s self, put on airs.
Show up. Expose.
Showy, a.
- 1. Gaudy, flashy, gay, glaring, gairish, flaunting, gorgeous, splendid, fine, dressy, jaunty, airy, bedizened,
pranked out, tinsel.
- 2. Grand, stately, ostentatious, pompous, magnificent, sumptuous.
Shred, n.
- 1. Strip.
- 2. Scrap, fragment, bit, piece, flitter, tatter, rag, strip.
Shrew, n.
- 1. Brawler, scold, termagant, vixen, virago, fury, turbulent woman.
- 2. Shrew-mouse.
Shrewd, a.
- 1. Evil, iniquitous, bad.
- 2. Vixenish, scolding, shrewish.
- 3. Vexatious, annoying, troublesome, painful, mischievous, malicious.