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Definition/Meaning

(adjective)

excessively and intrusively bright and vivid in color and/or pattern, often indicative of poor taste;

e.g. The blocks of contrasting colors make that shirt too garish for my taste.

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Similar Words

Arabesque

Brindle

Brummagem

Disharmonious

Flamboyant

Flaring

Flashy

Gaudy

High-toned

Hoity-toity

Kitsch

Loud

Meretricious

Noisy

Ostentatious

Overbright

Razzle-dazzle

Self-aggrandizing

Self-dramatizing

Splashy

Striated

Swank

Tawdry

Tricolor

Unartistic

Zooty

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Opposite Words

Appropriate

Bald

Bare

Classy

Conservative

Courtly

Dull

Elegant

Faded

Fine

Fitting

Graceful

Handsome

Inconspicuous

Light

Majestic

Minimalist

Modest

Muted

Naked

Pale

Pastel

Plain

Plain-vanilla

Quiet

Quieter

Refined

Repressed

Restrained

Sober

Stately

Subdued

Tasteful

Unadorned

Undecorated

Understated

Unflamboyant

Unflashy

Unobtrusive

Unornamented

Unpretentious

Washed-out

Washy

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Related Words

Affected

Arresting

Bargain-basement

Baroque

Bodacious

Bold

Bright

Brilliant

Bum

Catchy

Cheap

Cheapjack

Cheesy

Chromatic

Colored

Colorful

Commanding

Common

Commoner

Conspicuous

Crappy

Cut-rate

Dowdy

Dramatic

Emphatic

Emphatically

Excessive

Execrable

Extravagant

Fancy

Flamboyant

Florid

Fulsome

Fussy

Gimcrack

Gingerbread

Glaring

Grabby

Graceless

Grandiose

Grating

Grotesque

Hammy

Harsh

Hifalutin

High-minded

Highfalutin

Inelegant

Jarring

Junky

La-di-da

Low-grade

Low-rent

Lurid

Mediocre

Miserable

Motley

Multicolored

Noisy

Noticeable

Ornate

Ostentatious

Over-the-top

Overbright

Overwrought

Polychromatic

Polychrome

Pompous

Pretentious

Prismatic

Prominent

Pronounced

Rainbow

Remarkable

Rotten

Schlock

Second-rate

Shoddy

Showy

Sleazy

Snazzy

Snippy

Spectacular

Splashy

Striking

Tawdry

Terrible

Ticky-tacky

Trashy

Trumpery

Unaesthetic

Unfashionable

Unstylish

Varicolored

Varied

Variegated

Various

Zooty

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