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Garish vs Marish - What's the difference?

garish | marish |

As adjectives the difference between garish and marish

is that garish is overly ostentatious; so colourful as to be in bad taste while marish is marshy; growing in bogs or marshes.

As a noun marish is

a marsh.

garish

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Overly ostentatious; so colourful as to be in bad taste.
  • :
  • *
  • *:"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 .

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    marish

    English

    Alternative forms

    * marrish * marys

    Noun

    (marishes)
  • A marsh.
  • *:
  • *:Thenne sir Tristram departed / and in euery place he asked & demaunded after sir Launcelot / but in no place he coude not here of hym whether he were dede or on lyue // Soo syr Tristram rode by a forest and then?e was he ware of a fayre toure by a mareyse on that one syde / and on that other syde a fayr medowe
  • *1667 , (John Milton), (Paradise Lost) , Book XII:
  • *:The Cherubim descended; on the ground / Gliding meteorous, as evening-mist / Risen from a river o'er the marish glides, / And gathers ground fast at the labourer's heel / Homeward returning.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Marshy; growing in bogs or marshes.
  • * Tennyson
    • And the silvery marish' flowers that throng / The ' desolate creeks and pools among.
  • *, II.12:
  • *:after the manner of Cards or Maps, the utmost limits of knowne Countries, are set downe to be full of thicke marrish grounds, shady forrests, desart and uncouth places.
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