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garish

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of garish

excessively showy

  • the wedding guestʼs thick makeup was garish and unnecessary
Synonyms of garish

flamboyant, flaring, flashy, gaudy, glitzy, loud, noisy, ostentatious, razzle-dazzle, splashy, swank (or swanky)
Words Related to garish

excessive, extravagant, fulsome, hammy, overdone, over-the-top, overwrought

pretentious

baroque, bedizened, ornate

fancy, snazzy, zooty

blaring, bright, florid, glaring, glittery, overbright, spectacular

graceless, inelegant, lurid, tacky, tasteless, tawdry, tinselly, vulgar
Near Antonyms of garish

appropriate, fitting, proper

inconspicuous, muted, restrained, subdued, toned (down), unobtrusive

elegant, graceful, tasteful

modest, plain, simple, unpretentious
Antonyms of garish

conservative, quiet, understated, unflamboyant, unflashy

Synonym Discussion of garish

gaudy, tawdry, garish, flashy, meretricious mean vulgarly or cheaply showy. gaudy implies a tasteless use of overly bright, often clashing colors or excessive ornamentation.
    • circus performers in gaudy costumes
tawdry applies to what is at once gaudy and cheap and sleazy.
    • tawdry saloons
garish describes what is distressingly or offensively bright.
    • garish neon signs
flashy implies an effect of brilliance quickly and easily seen to be shallow or vulgar.
    • a flashy nightclub act
meretricious stresses falsity and may describe a tawdry show that beckons with a false allure or promise.
    • a meretricious wasteland of casinos and bars

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