garish

Word family

Related topics: Colours

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 adverbadv

a garishly painted house

漆得过于鲜艳的房子

—garishness noun [uncountableU]

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swift, violent painting style and their continuing relationship with the figurative.• The traditional designs have been replaced by much more garish colours.• The garish front of the Pizza Eater blossomed.• a garish necktie• The streets are lined with garish neon signs.• Her hair had been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.

Chinese

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Corpus

BNC: 18795 COCA: 17017

garish adj.
⇨ coloured

BNC: 18795 COCA: 17017

garish