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clashy-clashy

clashy-clashy adjective: featuring discordant colours or patterns.

Adjective

clashy-clashy (comparative more clashy-clashy, superlative most clashy-clashy)

  1. (informal, usually, upholstery) Featuring discordant colours or patterns.
    • "You could have borrowed one of Dad's ties," I pointed out.
      "Dad only has striped ties," Kirk said. "I've only got striped shirts. I'm not about to get all clashy-clashy at some fancy party."2008, Lisa Papademetriou, Accidentally Fabulous, Scholastic, →ISBN, page 2
    • Nor getting everyone’s “colours” done, so that the high streets won’t be so “clashy-clashy,” and constantly distressing to the more aesthetically sensitive.2009 August 3, Caitlin Moran, “Forget pushy parents, the less you encourage your children the better”, in The Times, UK

Antonyms of clashy-clashy

Forms of clashy-clashy

comparativemore clashy-clashy
superlativemost clashy-clashy

Questions about clashy-clashy

What does clashy-clashy mean?
Clashy-clashy means featuring discordant colours or patterns.
What part of speech is clashy-clashy?
Clashy-clashy is an adjective.

Words near clashy-clashy in the dictionary

  1. Clashnessie
  2. clashscore
  3. clashscores
  4. clasht
  5. clashy
  6. clashy-clashy
  7. clasmatocyte
  8. clasmatocytes
  9. clasmatocytic
  10. clasmatodendritic
  11. clasmatodendrosis

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