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showy
Of striking or attractive appearance
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  1. Of striking or attractive appearance
  2. Calling attention; flashy; standing out to the eye, often in such a way that is of low quality or little merit
  3. Making a striking or aesthetically pleasing display:
gaudy
Showy in a tasteless or vulgar way.
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  1. Showy in a tasteless or vulgar way.
  2. Bright and showy, but lacking in good taste; cheaply brilliant and ornate
loud
Characterized by high volume and intensity. Used of sound:
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  1. Characterized by high volume and intensity. Used of sound:
  2. Having strikingly bright colors:
  3. Clamorous and insistent:
ostentatious
Characterized by or given to ostentation.
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  1. Characterized by or given to ostentation.
brummagem
Cheap and showy; meretricious.
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  1. Cheap and showy; meretricious.
chintzy
(Informal) Cheap, stingy, mean, petty, etc.
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  1. (Informal) Cheap, stingy, mean, petty, etc.
  2. Tastelessly showy; cheap, tacky, or gaudy.
  3. Like chintz
flashy
Cheap and showy; gaudy.
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  1. Cheap and showy; gaudy.
  2. Giving a momentary or superficial impression of brilliance.
  3. Dazzling or bright for a little while
gaudy
Showy in a tasteless or vulgar way.
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  1. Showy in a tasteless or vulgar way.
  2. Bright and showy, but lacking in good taste; cheaply brilliant and ornate
glaring
Staring in a fierce, angry manner
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  1. Staring in a fierce, angry manner
  2. Too obvious to be overlooked
  3. Blatant, obvious.
loud
(Dial.) Strong or offensive, as in smell
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  1. (Dial.) Strong or offensive, as in smell
  2. Having strikingly bright colors:
  3. Clamorous and insistent:
meretricious
Plausible but false or insincere; specious:
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  1. Plausible but false or insincere; specious:
  2. Alluring by false, showy charms; attractive in a flashy way; tawdry
  3. (Obs.) Of, like, or characteristic of a prostitute
tawdry
Shameful or indecent:
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  1. Shameful or indecent:
  2. Cheap and showy; gaudy; sleazy
  3. Gaudy and cheap in nature or appearance.
tinsel
Made of or decorated with tinsel.
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  1. Made of or decorated with tinsel.
  2. Gaudy, showy, and basically valueless.
tacky
(Colloquial) In poor taste.
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  1. (Colloquial) In poor taste.
  2. Distasteful or offensive; tasteless:
  3. Lacking style or good taste; tawdry:
Find another word for garish. In this page you can discover 17 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for garish, like: showy, gaudy, loud, ostentatious, ornate, vulgar, brummagem, chintzy, flashy, gaudy and glaring.

Sentence Examples

  • All nature responds in rich and rapid growth to the garish light and intense heat of the long, splendid days.

  • The political writing, too, much of it in a garish, extravagant style, exercised his deeper ambitions, and stands as witness to the working of original thought and foresight.

  • Even in its present ruined state, it is apparent that in spite of the masterly treatment of particular passages, such as the robe of the pope, Darer still lacked a true sense of harmony and tone-relations, and that the effect of his work must have been restless and garish beside that of a master like the aged Bellini.

  • blinking text and garish graphics.

  • Overpowering Glitter: While the sparkle of micro pave rings is alluring, too much diamond detailing on the ring's band can overshadow the center stone and make the ring seem garish or ostentatious.

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