| Pronunciation: | | 'gehrish
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| Matching Terms: | | garishly, garishness
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| | Definition: | | [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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| | Synonyms: | | brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, gaudy, gimcrack, in poor taste(p), loud, meretricious, tacky, tasteless, tatty, tawdry, trashy |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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