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.
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            Garish like the laughters of drunkenness. --Jer.
                                                  Taylor.
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   2. Gay to extravagance; flighty.
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            It makes the mind loose and garish.   --South.
      -- Gar"ish*ly, adv. -- Gar"ish*ness, n. --Jer. Taylor.
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	garish
    adj 1: tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring";
           "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts";
           "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments"
           [syn: brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish,
           gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky,
           tatty, tawdry, trashy]

	

	92 Moby Thesaurus words for "garish":
   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