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garish

adjectiveCommon GRE wordMore G words

excessively bright, showy, or gaudy in a tasteless way

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Garish in a sentence

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The casino's garish neon signs bathed the whole street in a vulgar glow.

Antonyms
subduedtastefulmuted
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Garish (adjective) means excessively bright, showy, or gaudy in a tasteless way
Here is garish used in an example sentence: "The casino's garish neon signs bathed the whole street in a vulgar glow."
Common synonyms for garish include gaudy, flashy, lurid, ostentatious.
Antonyms of garish include subdued, tasteful, muted.
Garish is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.

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