About The Word Garish
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Garish
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What's The Definition Of Garish?
[adj] tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Garish: brassy | cheap | flash | flashy | gaudy | gimcrack | in poor taste(p) | loud | meretricious | tacky | tasteless | tatty | tawdry | trashy Related Terms | Find terms related to Garish: affected | bedazzling | bedizened | big-sounding | blatant | blinding | brazen | brazenfaced | bright | bright and shining | brilliant | cheap | chintzy | colorful | convoluted | crude | dazzling | declamatory | effulgent | elevated | euphuistic | extravagant | flagrant | flamboyant | flaming | flaring | flash | flashy | flaunting | florid | fulgent | fulgid | fulsome | gaudy | glaring | glary | Gongoresque | gorgeous | grandiloquent | grandiose | grandisonant | harsh | highfalutin | high-flowing | high-flown | high-flying | high-sounding | inkhorn | Johnsonian | labyrinthine | lexiphanic | lofty | loud | lurid | magniloquent | meretricious | obtrusive | orotund | ostentatious | overbright | overdone | overelaborate | overinvolved | overwrought | pedantic | pompous | pretentious | raffish | raw | refulgent | resplendent | rhetorical | screaming | sensational | sensationalistic | sententious | shameless | showy | shrieking | sonorous | spectacular | splendent | splendid | splendorous | stilted | tall | tasteless | tawdry | tinsel | tortuous | vivid | vulgar See Also | Garish In Webster's Dictionary \Gar"ish\, a. [Cf. OE. gauren to stare; of uncertain
origin. Cf. {gairish}.]
1. Showy; dazzling; ostentatious; attracting or exciting
attention. ``The garish sun.'' ``A garish flag.'' --Shak.
``In . . . garish colors.'' --Asham. ``The garish day.''
--J. H. Newman.
Garish like the laughters of drunkenness. --Jer.
Taylor.
2. Gay to extravagance; flighty.
It makes the mind loose and garish. --South.
-- {Gar"ish*ly}, adv. -- {Garish*ness}, n. --Jer. Taylor.
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