Garish vs Colorful - What's the difference?
garish | colorful |
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 .
Possessing]] prominent and varied [[colour, colors.
* 1895 , The Annual of the British School at Athens
Interesting, multifaceted, energetic, distinctive.
* {{quote-book, year=1895, author=H. Walter Staner and Henry Sturmey, title=The Autocar,
passage=One of the most colourful' people in motor racing, he writes in a ' colourful manner.}}
(euphemistic) Profane, obscene, offensive (usually in the phrase colourful language ).
* 2002 ,
As adjectives the difference between garish and colorful
is that garish is overly ostentatious; so colourful as to be in bad taste while colorful is possessing]] prominent and varied [[colour|colors.garish
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colorful
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* colourful (Commonwealth English)Adjective
(-)- It was a colourful vase with red and white hoops on the lid, and red bands above and below the main frieze. These bands also carry a metope pattern in white of triple lines and blobs, which can just be distinguished on the photographs.
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- Hussain celebrated reaching his ton with a gesture towards the media centre, pointing to the number three on the back of his shirt and offering some colourful language.