garish

[gar·ish]

Use the adjective garish to describe something that is overly vivid, bright, showy, and in bad taste like the DJ's garish outfit that is a flashback to the disco era.

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Showy; dazzling; ostentatious; attracting or exciting attention.

Adjective S.
tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments"


a.
Showy; dazzling; ostentatious; attracting or exciting attention.

a.
Gay to extravagance; flighty.


Garish

Gar"ish , 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.
Garish like the laughters of drunkenness.
2. Gay to extravagance; flighty.
It makes the mind loose and garish.
-- Gar"ish*ly, adv. -- Garish*ness, n. Jer. Taylor.

Showy; dazzling; ostentatious; attracting or exciting attention.

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Usage Examples

The 'Robben Island Bible' has arrived at the British Museum. It's a garish thing, its cover plastered with pink and gold Hindu images, designed to hide its contents. Within is the finest collection of words generated by human intelligence: the complete works of William Shakespeare.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.

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