PONCY Synonyms

• refined and tasteful in appearance or behavior or style

• suggesting taste, ease, and wealth

• displaying effortless beauty and simplicity in movement or execution

• unrestrained, especially with regard to feelings

• recklessly wasteful

• not plain; decorative or ornamented

• something many people believe that is false

• imagination or fantasy; held by Coleridge to be more casual and superficial than true imagination

• a predisposition to like something

• imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind

• have a fancy or particular liking or desire for

• showy tropical tree or shrub native to Madagascar; widely planted in tropical regions for its immense racemes of scarlet and orange flowers; sometimes placed in genus Poinciana

• marked by ostentation but often tasteless

• elaborately or excessively ornamented

• lofty in style

• puffed up with vanity

• impressive because of unnecessary largeness or grandeur; used to show disapproval

• affectedly genteel; to carry an air of affected importance; to be snobbish and haughty

• affectedly genteel; to carry an air of affected importance; to be snobbish and haughty

• marked by elaborate rhetoric and elaborated with decorative details

• intended to attract notice and impress others

• (of a display) tawdry or vulgar

• characterized by pomp and ceremony and stately display

• puffed up with vanity

• making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction

• intended to attract notice and impress others

• (of a display) tawdry or vulgar

• marked by ostentation but often tasteless

• displaying brilliance and virtuosity

• (used especially of clothes) marked by conspicuous display

• superficially attractive and stylish; suggesting wealth or expense

• befitting or characteristic of those who incline to social exclusiveness and who rebuff the advances of people considered inferior

• having elegance or taste or refinement in manners or dress

• being or in accordance with current social fashions