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Nina_Nia Posted 15 years ago
Vocabulary

Garish-gaudy-spangled

Hello,

Do the words gaudy and garish refer to something that is too birghtly colored only? Or do they also mean shiny?

For example, can I say about a spangled/bright/shiny dress that it is garish/gaudy?


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I've heard garish and gaudy used to describe everything from dresses to skyscrapers to people and their pets! They are great adjectives and can be applied to almost anything. Roget's thesaurus has this to say about the adjective garish: gaudy, lurid, loud, harsh, glaring, violent, showy, glittering, brassy, brash; tasteless, in bad taste, tawdry, vulgar, unattractive, bilious; informal flash, flashy, tacky, tinselly, neon.

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  • I've heard garish and gaudy used to describe everything from dresses to skyscrapers to people and their pets!
  • They are great adjectives and can be applied to almost anything.
  • Roget's thesaurus has this to say about the adjective garish: gaudy, lurid, loud, harsh, glaring, violent, showy, glittering, brassy, brash; tasteless, in bad taste, tawdry, vulgar, unattractive, bilious; informal flash, flashy, tacky, tinselly, neon.
  • antonym drab .
  • John
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I've heard garish and gaudy used to describe everything from dresses to skyscrapers to people and their pets! They are great adjectives and can be applied to almost anything.

Roget's thesaurus has this to say about the adjective garish:

gaudy, lurid, loud, harsh, glaring, violent, showy, glittering, brassy, brash; tasteless, in bad taste, tawdry, vulgar, unattractive, bilious; in
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