garish
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++gar·ish /ˈɡeərɪʃ $ ˈɡer-/ adjective CCvery brightly coloured in a way that is unpleasant to look at 颜色过分鲜艳的，过于花哨的 SYN brash OPP subtle Many of the rugs are too garish for my taste. 许多地毯色彩太花哨，不合我的口味。 garish colors 过分花哨的颜色► see thesaurus at colour —garishly adverb a garishly painted house 漆得过于鲜艳的房子 —garishness noun [uncountable]
Examples from the Corpus
garish• It is predominantly white, but the away strip is even more garish, a mix of red, white and blue.• By their loud, garish colours, their swift, violent painting style and their continuing relationship with the figurative.• The traditional designs have been replaced by much more garish colours.• The garish front of the Pizza Eater blossomed.• a garish necktie• The streets are lined with garish neon signs.• Her hair had been dyed a garish shade of red.• He made two desperate attempts to recoup by staging the kind of garish spectacle that had once lured customers to the Falls.• In some ways, Taylor is an unusual candidate to be the connoisseur of such a garish spectacle.• A guy in tattered cut-offs and garish sport shirt stands on a rock, brandishing a sword above his head.• But let us follow the other historians in their garish story.gar·ish adjectiveChineseSyllable
is unpleasant that very way coloured Corpus brightly in a
garish
gar‧ish /ˈɡeərɪʃ $ ˈɡer-/
adjective
very brightly coloured in a way that is unpleasant to look at
SYN brash
OPP subtle:
Many of the rugs are too garish for my taste.
garish colors
—garishly adverb:
a garishly painted house
—garishness noun [uncountable]
■ bright colours
▪bright used about a colour that is strong and easy to see: The front door was painted bright red.
▪brilliant/vivid used about a colour that is very bright: I looked out at the brilliant blue sky. | vivid red flowers
▪colourful British English, colorful American English used about things that have many different bright colours: There were window boxes full of colourful flowers.
▪multicoloured British English, multicolored American English used about things that have a pattern of many different bright colours: A multicoloured flag waved in the midday sun.
▪gaudy/garish too brightly coloured, in a way that is unattractive: The wallpaper was much too gaudy for me. | a garish orange tie
gar‧ish /ˈɡeərɪʃ $ ˈɡer-/
adjectivevery brightly coloured in a way that is unpleasant to look at
SYN brash
OPP subtle:
—garishly adverb:
—garishness noun [uncountable]
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