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garish

adjective
🔊/ˈɡeərɪʃ/
🔊/ˈɡerɪʃ/
 (disapproving)
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  1. very brightly coloured in an unpleasant way俗艳的；花哨的；炫目的 synonym gaudy
    • garish clothes/colours花里胡哨的衣服；过于艳丽的色彩
    • It’s a little too garish for my taste.我的品味太扎眼了。
    Extra Examples
    • furniture painted a rather garish yellow家具漆成黄色
    • I can't stand those garish Christmas lights.我受不了那些花里胡哨的圣诞灯饰。
    Topics Clothes and Fashionc2
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryGarish is used with these nouns:
    • colour
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    Word Originmid 16th cent.: of unknown origin.