garish

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a. 穿着花哨的, 炫耀的, 过分装饰的

发音

US /ˈɡɛəɹɪʃ/

词形变化

more garish 比较级 most garish 最高级

教材释义与例句

形容词

炫耀的；过分装饰的；过分鲜艳的

释义与例句

adj.
  1. 1.

    Overly ostentatious; so colorful as to be in bad taste.

    The dress fits her well, but the pattern is rather garish.

词汇关系

形容词

同义词 10

loud cheap flash tacky flashy trashy gaudy tawdry brassy gimcrack

近义相关 1

tasteless

词源

Unknown, possibly from obsolete Middle English gawren (“to stare”) which is of uncertain origin, probably from Old Norse gá (“to watch, heed”) or gaurr (“rough fellow”) (Proto-Indo-European *gʰow-rós, from *gʰew- (“to be angry”)). Compare with English gaw.

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