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Garish

//ˈɡɛəɹɪʃ// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Overly ostentatious; so colorful as to be in bad taste.

    "The dress fits her well, but the pattern is rather garish."

Adjective
  1. 1
    tastelessly showy wordnet

Etymology

Unknown, possibly from obsolete Middle English gawren (“to stare”) which is of uncertain origin, probably from Old Norse gá (“to watch, heed”) or gaurr (“rough fellow”) (Proto-Indo-European *gʰow-rós, from *gʰew- (“to be angry”)). Compare with English gaw.

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