Garish
['geərɪʃ] or ['ɡɛrɪʃ]
Definition
(a.) Showy; dazzling; ostentatious; attracting or exciting attention.
(a.) Gay to extravagance; flighty.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [Written also Gairish.] Flaunting, glaring, showy, gaudy, tawdry, flashy, gay, FINE, airy.
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Definition
adj. showy: gaudy.—adv. Gar′ishly.—n. Gar′ishness.
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Examples
- The shady retreat furnished relief from the garish day to the primitive man, and the opaque shades and Venetian blinds of modern civilization exclude the excess of light at our windows. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Let not day look on these lines, lest garish day waste, turn pale, and die. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- He could not bear the noise, the garish light, the continued rumble and movement of the street. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
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