garish
Adjective Satellite
- tastelessly showy
- "garish colors"
Adj
- Overly ostentatious; so colorful as to be in bad taste.
Adjective
- Excessively bright or showy; gaudy and tasteless.
Examples
- His GARISH play of "ZELKOVA" drew attention but scored few points.
- The dress fits her well, but the pattern is rather garish.
Origin / Etymology
Unknown, possibly from obsolete Middle English gawren (“to stare”) which is of uncertain origin, probably from Old Norse gá (“to watch, heed”) or gaurr (“rough fellow”) (Proto-Indo-European *gʰow-rós, from *gʰew- (“to be angry”)). Compare with English gaw.
Synonyms
brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy, bedizened, blatant, blingish, brash, catchpenny, chichi, chintzy, crass, crude, flaunting, florid, flossy, froufrou, garish, gauche, gay, glaring, gross, gussied up, hideous, kitschy, obtrusive, ostentatious, pizazzy, pretentious, raffish, ritzy, showy, snazzy, splendiferous, tasteless, tinselly, too much, unbecoming, untasteful, vain, whorish, zesty
Scrabble Score: 10
garish: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordgarish: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
garish: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary