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Garish Definition And Meaning
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"ishly}, adv. -- {Garishness}, n. --Jer. Taylor.

Garish Definition And Meaning

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"

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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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