garish vs meretricious

garish and meretricious both are adjectives.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
garish	No	Yes	No	No
meretricious	No	Yes	No	No

As adjectives, garish and meretricious are synonyms defined as:

Other synonyms of garish include brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy.

garish (adjective)	meretricious (adjective)
tastelessly showy	like or relating to a prostitute
	based on pretense; deceptively pleasing
	tastelessly showy