Garish vs Tinsel - What's the difference?
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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 .
A shining material used for ornamental purposes; especially, a very thin, gauzelike cloth with much gold or silver woven into it; also, very thin metal overlaid with a thin coating of gold or silver, brass foil, or the like.
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* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=Foreword Very thin strips of a glittering, metallic material used as a decoration, and traditionally, draped at Christmas time over streamers, paper chains and the branches of Christmas trees.
Anything shining and gaudy; something superficially shining and showy, or having a false luster, and more gay than valuable.
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Glittering, later especially superficially so; gaudy, showy.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.1:
To adorn with tinsel; to deck out with cheap but showy ornaments; to make gaudy.
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(figuratively) To give a false sparkle to (something).
Garish is a related term of tinsel.
As adjectives the difference between garish and tinsel
is that garish is overly ostentatious; so colourful as to be in bad taste while tinsel is glittering, later especially superficially so; gaudy, showy.As a noun tinsel is
a shining material used for ornamental purposes; especially, a very thin, gauzelike cloth with much gold or silver woven into it; also, very thin metal overlaid with a thin coating of gold or silver, brass foil, or the like.As a verb tinsel is
to adorn with tinsel; to deck out with cheap but showy ornaments; to make gaudy.garish
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Adjective
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tinsel
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Noun
(-)- Who can discern the tinsel from the gold?
citation, passage=He stood transfixed before the unaccustomed view of London at night time, a vast panorama which reminded him […] of some wood engravings far off and magical, in a printshop in his childhood. They dated from the previous century and were coarsely printed on tinted paper, with tinsel outlining the design.}}
- O happy peasant! O unhappy bard! His the mere tinsel , hers the rich reward.
Adjective
(en adjective)- Her garments all were wrought of beaten gold, / And all her steed with tinsell trappings shone [...].
Verb
- She, tinseled o'er in robes of varying hues.