Uncouth vs Garish - What's the difference?
uncouth | garish |
(archaic) Unfamiliar, strange, foreign.
* 1819 : , The Sketch Book (The Voyage)
Clumsy, awkward.
Unrefined, crude.
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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 .
As adjectives the difference between uncouth and garish
is that uncouth is (archaic) unfamiliar, strange, foreign while garish is overly ostentatious; so colourful as to be in bad taste.uncouth
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- There was a delicious sensation of mingled security and awe with which I looked down, from my giddy height, on the monsters of the deep at their uncouth gambols.
