'Garish' definitions:
Definition of 'garish'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'Garish'
From: GCIDE
- Garish \Gar"ish\ (g[^a]r"[i^]sh), 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. [1913 Webster]
- Garish like the laughters of drunkenness. --Jer. Taylor. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Gay to extravagance; flighty. [1913 Webster]
- It makes the mind loose and garish. --South. -- {Gar"ish*ly}, adv. -- {Gar"ish*ness}, n. --Jer. Taylor. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'garish'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- Gongoresque,
- gorgeous,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- harsh,
- high-flowing,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-sounding,
- highfalutin,
- inkhorn,
- Johnsonian,
- 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