garishness


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gar·ish

 (gâr′ĭsh, găr′-)
adj.
Overly bright or ornamented, especially in a vulgar or tasteless way; gaudy.

[Origin unknown.]

gar′ish·ly adv.
gar′ish·ness n.
Synonyms: garish, flashy, gaudy1, loud, tawdry
These adjectives mean tastelessly showy: garish colors; a flashy ring; a gaudy costume; a loud sport shirt; tawdry ornaments.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.garishness - tasteless showinessgarishness - tasteless showiness      
tastelessness - inelegance indicated by a lack of good taste
2.garishness - strident color or excessive ornamentation
ugliness - qualities of appearance that do not give pleasure to the senses
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Translations
بَهْرَجَه
křiklavost
skrigen
e-î sem er glannalegt/yfirgengilegt
krikľavosť
cafcaflı olmasüslülük

garishness

[ˈgɛərɪʃnɪs] N [of clothes, décor] → chabacanería f, ordinariez f, lo charro (LAm) ; [of colours, light] → estridencia f
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

garishness

n (pej)grelle or schreiende Farben pl; (of colours, illuminations)Grellheit f
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

garishness

[ˈgɛərɪʃnɪs] nvistosità
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

garish

(ˈgeəriʃ) adjective
unpleasantly bright or showy. His shirts are very garish.
ˈgarishly adverb
ˈgarishness noun
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.
References in periodicals archive ?
This means loudness and garishness. But times change, so do aesthetics and, in some cases, moral values.
His mentor was Stokowski, but there's no Hollywood Bowl-style garishness here.
If you've got a penchant for watching clips of early '90s Cardiff games on YouTube, you might be able to spot me on the last gate of the Bob Bank closest to the Grange End, the garishness of my oversized club-issued shellsuit not dulled by the graininess of the footage.
It might take unnerving times such as these for John Russell's apocalyptic imageboard expressionism not only to shine in all its acute garishness but also to finally stick and enter the canon.
The joke is about the macabre garishness supposedly attendant on American tastes, but it also has the effect of recalling Poe's fixations with sex and death, of conflating the two within a desired body.
Then there's the kind where the badness expands and metastasizes, taking on a jaw-dropping life of its own, pushing through to ever-higher levels of garishness," writes Owen Gleiberman of (https://variety.com/2017/film/reviews/the-book-of-henry-review-naomi-watts-1202465743/) Variety .
The hill men were delighted, not because the blankets represented protection against the elements, but because of their garishness, and our seventy good dollars, we soon found out, had gone to ornament our black boys and not to keep them warm.
He added: "The best term to describe the crown is as a piece of kitsch, usefully defined as 'something considered to be in poor taste because of excessive garishness or sentimentality'.
We have neon and general garishness, annoyingly chipper cruise directors and staff who are only on the ship because no one else will hire them.
Get him started by, say, mentioning the proliferation of cookie-cutter row housing built in the "Mediterranean" or "California" styles by some megadeveloper; and brace yourself for hours of rant as to why the theme-park garishness of these foreign architectural styles was totally unsuited to our climate, our lifestyles, our culture-a horrible blight on the otherwise beautiful landscape of our beloved motherland.