Garish

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Marked by strident color or excessive ornamentation; gaudy.
  • adj. Loud and flashy: garish makeup. See Synonyms at gaudy1.
  • adj. Glaring; dazzling: "Hide me from Day's garish eye” ( John Milton).
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  • adj. Overly ostentatious; so colourful as to be in bad taste.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Showy; dazzling; ostentatious; attracting or exciting attention.
  • adj. Gay to extravagance; flighty.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Glaring; staring; showy; dazzling; hence, glaringly or vulgarly gaudy.
  • Extravagantly gay; flighty.
  • Synonyms Flaunting, flashy, tawdry.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. tastelessly showy
    • Equivalent
    tasteless   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    showy    dazzling    ostentatious    flighty    bright   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Parrish    barish    bearish    cherish    marish    parish    perish   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    gaudy    flashy    lurid    multicolored    flamboyant    showy    tawdry    fluorescent    blood-red    gorgeous   
     
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