Extravagant vs Garish - What's the difference?
extravagant | garish |
Exceeding the bounds of something; roving; hence, foreign.
* (William Shakespeare)
Extreme; wild; excessive; unrestrained.
* Addison
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess), chapter=1 Exorbitant.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= Profuse in expenditure; prodigal; wasteful.
Overly ostentatious; so colourful as to be in bad taste.
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*:"My tastes," he said, still smiling, "incline me to the garishly sunlit side of this planet." And, to tease her and arouse her to combat: "I prefer a farandole to a nocturne; I'd rather have a painting than an etching; Mr. Whistler bores me with his monochromatic mud; I don't like dull colours, dull sounds, dull intellects;."
*2003 August 10, Ken Keeler, "The Devil's Hands are Idle Playthings", Futurama , season 5, episode 16, Fox Broadcasting Company
*:Leela: He gave me mechanical ears / Effective though just a bit garish .
As adjectives the difference between extravagant and garish
is that extravagant is exceeding the bounds of something; roving; hence, foreign while garish is overly ostentatious; so colourful as to be in bad taste.extravagant
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(en adjective)- The extravagant and erring spirit hies / To his confine.
- There appears something nobly wild and extravagant in great natural geniuses.
citation, passage=The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. […] The bed was the most extravagant piece. Its graceful cane halftester rose high towards the cornice and was so festooned in carved white wood that the effect was positively insecure, as if the great couch were trimmed with icing sugar.}}
Obama goes troll-hunting, passage=According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle.}}
- (Bancroft)