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adjective
- 1. obtrusively bright and showy; lurid: "garish shirts in all sorts of colours"
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showy or too brightly colored:
The meaning of GARISH is clothed in vivid colors. How to use garish in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Garish.
adjective. disapproving us / ˈɡer.ɪʃ / uk / ˈɡeə.rɪʃ / Add to word list. unpleasantly bright: a pair of garish Bermuda shorts. Synonyms. gaudy. loud disapproving. Compare. tawdry (LOW QUALITY) SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. The qualities of color. analogous. brightly. brightness. colorfully. fluorescent. harsh. muddily. muddy.
You describe something as garish when you dislike it because it is very bright in an unattractive, showy way.
Garish definition: crudely or tastelessly colorful, showy, or elaborate, as clothes or decoration.. See examples of GARISH used in a sentence.
1. crudely or tastelessly colorful, showy, or elaborate, as clothes. 2. excessively ornate or elaborate, as buildings or writings. 3. dressed in or ornamented with bright colors. 4. excessively bright; glaring. [1535–45; perhaps = obsolete gaure to stare (Middle English gauren < Old Norse) + -ish 1] gar′ish•ly, adv. gar′ish•ness, n.
Synonyms for GARISH: loud, noisy, gaudy, ornate, flashy, ostentatious, glitzy, flaring; Antonyms of GARISH: appropriate, conservative, understated, quiet, proper, fitting, subdued, muted.
Garish definition: Overly bright or ornamented, especially in a vulgar or tasteless way; gaudy.
garish meaning, definition, what is garish: very brightly coloured in a way that is ...: Learn more.
You describe something as garish when you dislike it because it is very bright in an unattractive, showy way.
