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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

GARISH. [See Gairish.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments" [syn: brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: origin unknown Date: 1545 1. clothed in vivid colors 2. a. excessively or disturbingly vivid <garish colors> <garish imagery> b. offensively or distressingly bright ; glaring 3. tastelessly showy ; flashy Synonyms: see gaudy • garishly adverb • garishness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 obtrusively bright; showy. 2 gaudy; over-decorated. Derivatives: garishly adv. garishness n. Etymology: 16th-c. gaurish app. f. obs. gaure stare

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Garish 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

You describe something as garish when you dislike it because it is very bright in an unattractive, showy way. They climbed the garish purple-carpeted stairs. ...the restaurant's garish, illuminated signs. = gaudy ADJ [disapproval] • garishly ...a garishly patterned three-piece suite. ADV: ADV adj/-ed

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. [Written also Gairish.] Flaunting, staring, glaring, showy, gaudy, tawdry, flashy.

Moby Thesaurus

Gongoresque, Johnsonian, 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, gorgeous, grandiloquent, grandiose, grandisonant, harsh, high-flowing, high-flown, high-flying, high-sounding, highfalutin, inkhorn, 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