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adjective
- 1. obtrusively bright and showy; lurid: "garish shirts in all sorts of colours"
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disapproving uk / ˈɡeə.rɪʃ / us / ˈɡer.ɪʃ / 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 colour. analogous. brightly. brightness. colourfully. darkness. fluorescent. harsh. neutrally.
The meaning of GARISH is clothed in vivid colors. How to use garish in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Garish.
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. neutrally.
Garish definition: crudely or tastelessly colorful, showy, or elaborate, as clothes or decoration.. See examples of GARISH used in a sentence.
You describe something as garish when you dislike it because it is very bright in an unattractive, showy way.
Use the adjective garish to describe something that is overly vivid, bright, showy, and in bad taste — like the DJ's garish outfit that is a flashback to the disco era.
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.
