garish
/ˈɡɛːrɪʃ
/adjective
Obtrusively bright and showy; lurid: garish shirts in all sorts of colours...
- The Quakers started like a team with championship ambition, as purposeful and bright as their garish yellow shirts.
- Maybe he received a garish jumper, a lurid tie or an outsized pair of slippers in his seasonal gifts.
- The combination of garish cartoon colours and brash graphic quality is totally euphoric.
Synonyms
gaudy, lurid, loud, over-bright, harsh, glaring, violent, flashy, showy, glittering, brassy, brash;
tasteless, in bad taste, vulgar, distasteful, unattractive, nauseating, bilious, sickly
informal flash, tacky
Derivatives
garishly
/ adverb ...- This technology has given the state its dominant symbols - even when temperatures warm up to near freezing, Alaskans rumble about outside in thick, garishly colored parkas, as if displaying the symbols of a common tribe.
- Set against a garishly psychedelic Thailand, the frenetic musical comedy revolves around Bay, a mop-topped rock drummer who is a devout Buddhist trying to achieve the 10th level of sacred drumming.
- A large quantity of the toys - garishly coloured flashing dummies and fur-covered dogs, cats, rabbits and pandas - were seized during a swoop in Yorkshire Street by trading standards officers.
garishness
/ noun ...- It is not only the brightness, garishness, shininess and fine detail of these pictures: the composition, too, was - by the standards of the masters - slapdash.
- It's a curious mix of film-set kitsch and rustic country village, but it's pretty and tasteful and devoid of the kind garishness that taints Christmas here.
- The appeal of Los Gavilanes lies precisely in its English disdain for garishness.
Origin
Mid 16th century: of unknown origin.
Rhymes
- honey mesquite
- honey month
- honeymoon
- honeymoon couple
- honeymoon cystitis
- honeymooner
- honeymoonlight
- honeymoon suite
- honey moth
- honey mouse
- honey-mouthed
- honey mushroom
- honey mustard
- honey myrtle
- honey of borax
- honey parrot
- honey pear
- honey pie
- honey plant
- honey-pod
- honey pore
- honey possum
- honeypot
- honeypot ant
- honey ratel