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Webster 1913 Edition
Garish
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.
– Gar′ish-ly
, adv.
Gar′ish-ness
, Noun.
Jer. Taylor.
Webster 1828 Edition
Garish
GARISH.
[See Gairish.]Definition 2024
garish
garish
English
Adjective
garish (comparative more garish, superlative most garish)
- Overly ostentatious; so colourful as to be in bad taste.
- The dress fits her well, but the pattern is rather garish.
- 1907, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “chapter VIII”, in The Younger Set (Project Gutenberg; EBook #14852), New York, N.Y.: A. L. Burt Company, published 1 February 2005 (Project Gutenberg version), OCLC 4241346:
- "My tastes," he said, still smiling, "incline me to the garishly sunlit side of this planet." And, to tease her and arouse her to combat: "I prefer a farandole to a nocturne; I'd rather have a painting than an etching; Mr. Whistler bores me with his monochromatic mud; I don't like dull colours, dull sounds, dull intellects; […]."
- 2003 August 10, Ken Keeler, "The Devil's Hands are Idle Playthings", Futurama, season 5, episode 16, Fox Broadcasting Company
- Leela: He gave me mechanical ears / Effective though just a bit garish.
Translations
overly ostentatious; so colourful as to be in bad taste
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