Garish

Definition: Garish

Garish

Adjective

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

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "garish" was first used: 1545. (references)

Etymology: Garish \Gar"ish\, adjective. [Compare to Old English gauren to stare; of uncertain origin. Compare to gairish.]. (references)

Synonyms: Garish

Ornament

Showy, flashy; gaudy; (vulgar); garish, gairish; gorgeous.

Ostentation

Adjective: ostentatious, showy, dashing, pretentious; janty, jaunty; grand, pompous, palatial; high-sounding; turgid; (big-sounding); gairish, garish; gaudy, gaudy as a butterfly, gaudy as a tulip; flaunting, flashing, flaming, glittering; gay; (ornate).

Crosswords: Garish

And when I shall die, take him and cut him up in little stars, and he will make the face of heaven so fine that all the world will fall in love with night and pay no worship to the garish sun. (Romeo + Juliet; writing credit: Craig Pearce)

And so many gifted people are still making pictures like you do with your clothes on. And contrary to what Dustin Hoffman thinks, it is not an obscene evening, it is not garish, and it is not embarrassing (The 47th Annual Academy Awards; writing credit: William Hanley; Yvonne Lex)

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Books

• Garish Days (reference)

• Garish Gardens Outlandish Lawns (reference)

• The Garish Day (reference)

  (more book examples)

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A few moments after he found himself on the stage amid the garish gas and the dim scenery, acting before the innumerable faces of the void

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Albanian

tepër i ndezur. (various references)

Arabic 

‏متوهج (aglow, ardent, blazing, fervent, flamboyant, flame, flash, glowing, incandescent, live, lurid, radiant), ‏مبهرج (chichi, flashy, florid, gaudy, showy, tawdry, tinsel), ‏صارخ (blatant, crying, flamboyant, fortissimo, gaudy, jarring, loud, lurid, noisy, outrageous, rank, sharp, showy, staring, trumpery, violent), ‏اللوان صارخة. (various references)

Bulgarian 

ярък (blazing, bright, clear, flaming, flashy, gaudy, gay, glaring, glowing, gutty, harsh, high-colored, high-coloured, hot, jazz, jazzy, live, loud, lucid, lurid, noisy, picturesque, refulgent, relucent, round, showy, staring, violent, vivid, zizzi), крещящ (blatant, clamant, dashing, flamboyant, flaring, flashy, glaring, howling, jazz, loud, meretricious, noisy, obvious, screaming, screamy, showy, sporty, tinsel, trumpery, vociferous, zizzi), блестящ (agleam, bright, brilliant, flaring, fulgent, gay, glistening, imperial, lambent, lucent, lucid, luminous, lustrous, oriental, pyrotechnic, refulgent, relucent, resplendent, shining, sparkling, splendent, splendid, splendiferous, superb, vivid). (various references)

Chinese 

花�"� (gaudy), 扎眼. (various references)

Czech

výstřední (crazy, eccentric, extravagant, fantastic, high-flown, queer), oslepující (blinding, dazzling, glaring), nápadný (conspicuous, gaudy, glaring, jazzy, loud, noticeable, ostentatious, outstanding, prominent, remarkable, showy, spectacular, sporty, striking), křiklavý (crude, flagrant, gaudy, glaring, jazzy, loud, startling, vociferous), halasný (clamorous, raucous, vociferous), řvavý (blatant, gaudy, jarring). (various references)

Farsi 

زننده (Acrid, Acrimonious, Beater, Gaunt, Glassy, Harsh, Hideous, Knocker, Loathsome, Lurid, Nasty, Nippy, Pitapat, Poignant, Pungent, Repellent, Repugnant, Repulsive, Sharp, Squalid, Striker, Tart, Vile), شعله ور (Afire, Aflame, Alight, Inflammable), دارای زرق وبرق زیاد. (various references)

Finnish

räikeä (flagrant, gaudy, glaring, gross, harsh), korea (fine, showy). (various references)

French

voyant (gaudy), tapageur, criard (gaudy), aux couleurs criardes. (various references)

German

grell (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, acute, blazing, dazzling, flashy, garishly, gaudily, gaudy, glaring, harsh, harshly, loud, loudly, lurid, luridly, penetratingly, piercing, raw, sharp, showy, shrill, strident, violent). (various references)

Greek 

φανταχτερόσ (fancy, flamboyant, flashy, gaudy, jazzy, ornate, tawdry), φανταχτερός (colourful, gaudy, lurid, ostentatious), επιδεικτικόσ (dashing, flamboyant, flashy, meretricious, ostentatious, show off, showy, sporty, swanky). (various references)

Hebrew 

צעק� י (boisterous, clamorous, flamboyant, flashy, noisy, showy, staring, vociferous). (various references)

Hungarian

rikító (flamboyant, flashy, flaunting, flaunty, gaudy, hot, jazzy, lurid, showy, sporty). (various references)

Indonesian

berkilau (candied, glitter, lucid, orient). (various references)

Italian

vistoso (blatant, catchy, considerable, dashing, flashy, gaudy, gorgeous, important, large, loud, meretricious, noisy, showy, tawdry, trumpery), pacchiano (showy, tawdry), abbagliante (dazzling, glaring). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

けつの穴 (anal, ass, but, gaudy, however). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

けばけば (gaudy). (various references)

Manx

dallagh (dazzling, glaring). (various references)

Pig Latin

arishgay.(various references)

Portuguese

vistoso (brave, clipping, dressy, faked, flaring, flash, flashy, gallant, goodly, noisy, off-key, showy, spicy, theatrical, viewy), pomposo (budge, consequential, formal, gallant, grandiose, lofty, measured, orotund, ostentatious, pompous, puffed-up, showy, solemn, sounding, stately, stiff, tumid), extravagante (chappy, erratic, extravagant, fancy, flamboyant, freakish, rampant, thriftless, ultra, whimsical), espalhafatoso (bustling, flashy, fussy, gaudy, loud, noisy, staring, tawdry), berrante (gaudy, noisy, staring), aparatoso (grand, ostentatious, spectacular, tawdry, theatrical). (various references)

Romanian

de prost gust (gaudy, painty), bãtãtor la ochi (banner, flash, flashy, flaunty, glaring, rampageous, self evident, staring, tinsel), ţipãtor (blatant, crude, crying, flash, flashy, flaunty, gaudy, glaring, gross, harsh, hot, jazzily, loud, noisy, painty, peeper, screaming, showy, shrill, staring, strident, tawdry, tinsel, violent). (various references)

Russian 

кричащий (crying, flashy, florid, gaudy, jazz, loud, nobby, noisy, screaming), ослепительный (candescent, dazzling, flaring, flashy, glaring). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

drečav (flaring, gaudy, loud, tacky). (various references)

Spanish

llamativo (aggressive, arresting, blatant, catchpenny, effective, flamboyant, gaudy, jazzy, obtrusive, screaming, showy, staring, startling, striking). (various references)

Swedish

skrikig (Flossy, jazzy, loud, loudmouthed, lurid, screaming), prålig (flamboyant, flash, flashy, fussy, gaudy, meretricious, raffish, showy, sporty, tawdry), gräll (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, acute, glaring, jazzy, loud, lurid, sharp). (various references)

Thai

ฉู�"ฉา�" ((as) gaudy as a butterfly, rakish). (various references)

Turkish

gösterişli (artsy, Arty, arty-crafty, baronial, bombastic, chichi, dashing, declamatory, dressy, flamboyant, flash, flashily, flashy, flatulent, Flossy, gingerbread, glossy, meretricious, Nobby, ostentatious, polished, posh, showy, sleek, smart, spectacular, splendent, sporty, swanky, swish, thoroughbred, viewy), cafcaflı (meretricious, pompous, showy). (various references)

Ukrainian

яскравий (bright, brilliant, catchy, cheesy, colorful, colourful, flamboyant, flaming, florid, gorgeous, high-colored, high-coloured, illustrious, lightsome, noisy, obvious, oriental, pictorial, picturesque, powerful, quicksilver, sober, starry, vivid), позбавлений смаку (flaring, tasteless). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sặc sỡ chói mắt, loè loẹt (catchpenny, flash, flashy, gaudy, gingerbread, rococo, showy, tawdry, tinty). (various references)

Welsh

coegwych (gaudy, tawdry). (various references)

gawren. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "garish": garishly, garishness, garishnesses. (additional references)

Words ending with "garish": vinegarish. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Garish" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Farash, gadis, Gaisf, Gaishi, Garah, garech, Garis, Garith, garmish, garrish, Garroch, Garrucha, Garsin, garys, Gavrosh, Gearach, Gerich, Ghairbh, gharish, girsh, gorich, graish, Gransch, grosh, grush, Guareschi, guish, Jarosch, marish, Sgairbh. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: girsh, hairs, ragis.

-2 letters: airs, gars, gash, ghis, hags, hair, ragi, rags, rash, rias, rigs, sari, shag, shri, sigh.

-3 letters: air, ais, ars, ash, gar, gas, ghi, hag, has, his, rag, rah, ras, ria, rig, sag, sha, sir, sri.

-4 letters: ag, ah, ai, ar, as, ha, hi, is, sh, si.

+1 letter: dishrag, garfish, garnish, gharris, grayish, hegaris, hegiras, largish, scraigh, sharing.

+2 letters: archings, chagrins, crashing, digraphs, dishrags, garishly, gharials, gharries, graphics, grayfish, hagrides, harpings, hearings, hearsing, isograph, orangish, phrasing, ringhals, scraighs, shaggier, sharking, sharping, shearing, straight, trashing.

+3 letters: affrights, agraphias, ashlaring, ashlering, diagraphs, discharge, dragonish, epigraphs, farthings, garfishes, garnished, garnishee, garnishes, gearshift, ghastlier, giraffish, graphites, hamstring, handgrips, hangbirds, hangfires, harassing, heritages, highroads, hiraganas, histogram, hoardings, ingathers, isographs, jargonish, kashering, litharges, longhairs, mischarge, narghiles, nargilehs, nightjars, oligarchs, phrasings, ravishing, rehashing, reshaping, reshaving, rewashing, scarphing, scraighed, searching, serigraph, shearings, shearling, shrinkage, starching, starlight, straights, thirlages, thrashing, trigraphs.