Vibrant vs Garish - What's the difference?
vibrant | garish |
Pulsing with energy or activity
Lively and vigorous
Vibrating, resonant or resounding
* {{quote-journal
, year=1770
, title=The Empire of Love. / A Philosophical Poem.
, journal=Miscellanies, in Verse and Prose, English and Latin
, page=111
, publisher=T. Bensley, for J. White
, author=Anthony Champion
, passage=Mock their pale vigils, void and vain, / Whether, more curious than humane, / Like Augurs old, they pore / On the still-vibrant fibre's frame;}}
* {{quote-book
, title=The Singing of the Future
, author=David Thomas Ffrangcon-Davies
, publisher=J. Lane
, year=1905
, page=258
, passage=A vibrant voice in the true sense is of course desirable}}
(of a colour) bright
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 a noun vibrant
is trill.As an adjective garish is
overly ostentatious; so colourful as to be in bad taste.vibrant
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- He has a vibrant personality.