Garish

Adjective

 * 1) Overly ostentatious; so colourful as to be in bad taste.
 * The dress fits her well, but the pattern is rather garish.
 * 1) * 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.

Adverbs for Garish
cheaply; glitteringly; unpleasantly; surprisingly; unexpectedly; intensely; crudely; dit-cordantly; inharmoniously; rudely; monstrously; obtrusively; pretentiously; pompously; spectacularly; dramatically; unbecomingly; ridiculously; intensely; preposterously.

Synonyms for Garish
ostentatious, showy, tawdry, dazzling, flashy, gaudy, glaring, blatant, vulgar, ornate, flamboyant.

Antonyms for Garish
modest, sober, discreet, quiet, somber.

Thesaurus
Gongoresque, Johnsonian, affected, bedazzling, bedizened, big-sounding, blatant, blinding, brazen, brazenfaced, bright, bright and shining, brilliant, cheap, chintzy, colorful, convoluted, crude, dazzling, declamatory, effulgent, elevated, euphuistic, extravagant, flagrant, flamboyant, flaming, flaring, flash, flashy, flaunting, florid, fulgent, fulgid, fulsome, gaudy, glaring, glary, gorgeous, grandiloquent, grandiose, grandisonant, harsh, high-flowing, high-flown, high-flying, high-sounding, highfalutin, inkhorn, labyrinthine, lexiphanic, lofty, loud, lurid, magniloquent, meretricious, obtrusive, orotund, ostentatious, overbright, overdone, overelaborate, overinvolved, overwrought, pedantic, pompous, pretentious, raffish, raw, refulgent, resplendent, rhetorical, screaming, sensational, sensationalistic, sententious, shameless, showy, shrieking, sonorous, spectacular, splendent, splendid, splendorous, stilted, tall, tasteless, tawdry, tinsel, tortuous, vivid, vulgar

Etymology
Perhaps from gaurr:.

Translations

 * Hungarian: feltűnő, rikító, ízléstelen
 * Italian:


 * Swedish: gräll