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GARISH
brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy
(adjective) tastelessly showy; “a flash car”; “a flashy ring”; “garish colors”; “a gaudy costume”; “loud sport shirts”; “a meretricious yet stylish book”; “tawdry ornaments”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
garish (comparative more garish, superlative most garish)
Overly ostentatious; so colourful as to be in bad taste. [from 1540s]
Synonym: Thesaurus:gaudy
Anagrams
• Harigs, girahs, girsha
Source: Wiktionary
Gar"ish, a. Etym: [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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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