garish as an adjective: - 1
garish
adjective
1 garish
Tastelessly showy:
— Garish colors.
synonyms: brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy ... show more.
Roget 420:
shining
etc.
v.;
luminous,
luminiferous†;
lucid,
lucent,
luculent†,
lucific†,
luciferous;
light,
lightsome;
bright,
vivid,
splendent†,
nitid†,
lustrous,
shiny,
beamy†,
scintillant†,
radiant,
lambent;
sheen,
sheeny;
glossy,
burnished,
glassy,
sunny,
orient,
meridian;
noonday,
tide;
cloudless,
clear;
unclouded,
unobscured†.
gairish†,
garish;
resplendent,
transplendent†;
refulgent,
effulgent;
fulgid†,
fulgent†;
relucent†,
splendid,
blazing,
in a blaze,
ablaze,
rutilant†,
meteoric,
phosphorescent;
aglow.
bright as silver;
light as day,
bright as day,
light as noonday,
bright as noonday,
bright as the sun at noonday.
actinic;
photogenic,
graphic;
heliographic;
heliophagous†.
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Roget 428:
colored
etc.
v.;
colorific†,
tingent†,
tinctorial†;
chromatic,
prismatic;
full-colored,
high-colored,
deep-colored;
doubly-dyed;
polychromatic;
chromatogenous†;
tingible†.
bright,
vivid,
intense,
deep;
fresh,
unfaded†;
rich,
gorgeous;
gay.
gaudy,
florid;
gay,
garish;
rainbow-colored,
multihued;
showy,
flaunting,
flashy;
raw,
crude;
glaring,
flaring;
discordant,
inharmonious.
mellow,
pastel,
harmonious,
pearly,
sweet,
delicate,
tender,
refined.
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Roget 847:
ornamented,
beautified
etc.
v.;
ornate,
rich,
gilt,
begilt†,
tesselated,
festooned;
champleve [Fr.],
cloisonne,
topiary.
smart,
gay,
trickly†,
flowery,
glittering;
new gilt,
new spangled;
fine as a Mayday queen,
fine as a fivepence†,
fine as a carrot fresh scraped;
pranked out,
bedight†,
well-groomed.
in full dress
etc.
(fashion)
852;
dressed to kill,
dressed to the nines,
dressed to advantage;
in Sunday best,
en grand tenue [Fr.],
en grande toilette [Fr.];
in best bib and tucker,
endimanche [Fr.].
showy,
flashy;
gaudy
etc.
(vulgar)
851;
garish,
gairish†;
gorgeous.
ornamental,
decorative;
becoming
etc.
(accordant)
23.
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Roget 882:
ostentatious,
showy,
dashing,
pretentious;
janty†,
jaunty;
grand,
pompous,
palatial;
high-sounding;
turgid
etc.
(big-sounding)
577;
gairish†,
garish;
gaudy,
gaudy as a peacock,
gaudy as a butterfly,
gaudy as a tulip;
flaunting,
flashing,
flaming,
glittering;
gay
etc.
(ornate)
847.
splendid,
magnificent,
sumptuous.
theatrical,
dramatic,
spectacular;
ceremonial,
ritual.
solemn,
stately,
majestic,
formal,
stiff,
ceremonious,
punctilious,
starched.
dressed to kill,
dressed to the nines,
decjed out,
all decked out,
en granite tenue [Fr.],
in best bib and tucker,
in Sunday best,
endimanch_e,
chic.
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Polish: tromtadracki, szpanerski, efekciarski, kabotyĆski
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 ... show more.
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