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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. tastelessly showy;
- Example: "a flash car"
- Example: "a flashy ring"
- Example: "garish colors"
- Example: "a gaudy costume"
- Example: "loud sport shirts"
- Example: "a meretricious yet stylish book"
- Example: "tawdry ornaments"
[syn: brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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]