garishness

Other forms of garishness

plural

garishnesses·

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 garishness

What does garishness mean?

garishness means "tasteless showiness". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in garishness?

garishness has 3 syllables: ga-rish-ness. The stress falls on "ga".

What is another word for garishness?

Close synonyms include flashiness, gaudiness, loudness, brashness, meretriciousness. 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 garishness a common word?

garishness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.