GARISH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does garish mean? 

• GARISH (adjective)
  The adjective GARISH has 1 sense:

1. tastelessly showy

  Familiarity information: GARISH used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GARISH (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tastelessly showy

Synonyms:

brassy; cheap; flash; flashy; garish; gaudy; gimcrack; loud; meretricious; tacky; tatty; tawdry; trashy

Context example:

tawdry ornaments

Similar:

tasteless (lacking aesthetic or social taste)

Derivation:

garishness (strident color or excessive ornamentation)

garishness (tasteless showiness)

 Context examples 

There sat my friend at a little round table near the door of the garish Italian restaurant.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He saw these other scenes through drifting vapors and swirls of sullen fog dissolving before shafts of red and garish light.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The outlying villas closed up thicker and thicker, until their shoulders met, and we were driving between a double line of houses with garish shops at the corners, and such a stream of traffic as I had never seen, roaring down the centre.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)