Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Resembling jazz in form or nature; rhythmical.
- adj. Slang Showy; flashy: a jazzy car.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. resembling jazz{1} especially in its rhythm.
- adj. ostentatious or strikingly styled; -- used especially of clothes.
- adj. marked by animation or performed with flair[2].
WordNet 3.0
- adj. resembling jazz (especially in its rhythm)
- adj. (used especially of clothes) marked by conspicuous display
Examples
“Music » Guest musician Cho-Liang Lin presents a bill of what he calls jazzy, beautiful works.”
“We made our way up to the second floor lounge to enjoy drinks while a live band played Disney tunes in jazzy arrangements.”
“Question of the day: Which will be easier to revive, the word jazzy, or...jazz?”
“Gulls loop above the boardwalk in jazzy little arcs.”
“As Rabbi Steven Wise wrote in 1924, “Jazz is one of the inevitable expressions of what might be called the jazzy morale of mood of America . . . when America regains its soul, jazz will go, not before—that is to say, it will be relegated to the dark and scarlet haunts whence it came and whither unwept it will return, after America’s soul is reborn.””
“Still, the Warner pre-Codes have a certain jazzy verve, and even when they’re awful the short running times ensure minimal pain.”
“It looked way too jazzy, which is how contemporary dancers often look dancing Latin to me.”
“Many of them speak a jazzy, Big Easy patois, which sounds a bit Texan, a bit southern, and a bit French, but with a New Yorky edge—like a laid-back Brooklynite faking a southern and a French accent at the same time.”
“Here's a good one -- known as the jazzy-jump," he exclaimed.”
“Yeah, I guess you could say the mahogany body is rather 'jazzy'-looking ...”
madmouth not to be confused with jazz. If a song's said to have a 'jazzy sort of tune to it'--run. Jun 6, 2009
bilby "Jazzy, free-form, and sexy, Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless (A bout de souffle) helped launch the French new wave and ensured cinema would never be the same."
- theauteurs.com.
Jun 5, 2009