Of colour: extremely bright or strong; intense, vivid. Also of an outline: strongly or harshly represented; distinct.

Of colour: Excessively bright, glaring.

Of colour: harsh, crude, bright.

Crude in form or quality; lacking finish or polish. †to leave raw: to leave unfinished (cf. rawly, adv. 2) (obsolete).

Shrill; ‘loud’; garish (cf. criant, adj.).

Early form of trenchant, adj. n.; also from 18th cent. a loanword from French; esp. in figurative sense: = trenchant, adj. 2; also of colours…

In occasional uses referring to the visible aspect of flame. Flaring, gaudy.

transferred of a ‘loud’ colour; cf. glaring, adj. 2.

‘Loud’, garish.

Given to screaming; having a screaming voice or sound; figurative characterized by exaggerated or undignified expression of anger, complaint, or the…

transferred and figurative. Violent or startling in effect; glaring, blatant, obvious.

Characterized by boisterous or noisy behaviour; rowdy, disorderly, uproarious. Also: garish, obtrusively prominent.

figurative. Of colours: excessively bright; lurid, glaring.

In various transferred applications: Keen; sharp; pungent; poignant. Also of colours: bright, glaring.