garish

Other forms of garish

comparative

garisher·

superlative

garishest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about garish

What does garish mean?

garish means "tastelessly showy".

How many syllables are in garish?

garish has 2 syllables: gar-ish. The stress falls on "gar". In IPA it is /ˈɡɛɹɪʃ/.

What is another word for garish?

Close synonyms include brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, gaudy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is garish a common word?

garish is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.