Meaning of BRASSY
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- [adj] unrestrained by convention or propriety; "an audacious trick to pull"; "a barefaced hypocrite"; "the most bodacious display of tourism this side of Anaheim"- Los Angeles Times; "bold-faced lies"; "brazen arrogance"; "the modern world with its quick material successes and insolent belief in the boundless possibilities of progress"- Bertrand Russell
- [adj] tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments"
- [adj] resembling the sound of a brass instrument
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| | Synonyms: | | audacious, barefaced, bodacious, bold-faced, brasslike, brazen, brazen-faced, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, in poor taste(p), insolent, loud, meretricious, tacky, tasteless, tatty, tawdry, trashy, unashamed |
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\Brass"y\, a.
1. Of or pertaining to brass; having the nature, appearance,
or hardness, of brass.
2. Impudent; impudently bold. [Colloq.]
\Brass"y\, n. [Written also {brassie} and {brassey}.]
(Golf)
A wooden club soled with brass.
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| | Related Terms: | | adust, affront, arrant, arrogant, auburn, audacious, aureate, aweless, barefaced, bay, bayard, bay-colored, beard, bell the cat, bite the bullet, blaring, blatant, blatting, blustering, boisterous, bold, bold as brass, boldfaced, brash, brass, brave, brawling, brazen, brazen out, brazenfaced, bronze, bronze-colored, bronzed, bronzy, brownish-red, bumptious, callous, calloused, case-hardened, castaneous, challenging, cheeky, chestnut, chestnut-brown, choked, clamant, clamorous, clamoursome, clanging, clangorous, clattery, coarse, cocky, colorful, confront, conscienceless, contemptuous, copper, copper-colored, coppery, cracked, croaking, croaky, crude, cupreous, cuprous, daring, defiant, defying, derisive, disdainful, disregardful, dissonant, dry, exhibitionistic, extravagant, face, face the music, face up, face up to, ferrous, ferruginous, flagrant, flamboyant, flaring, flashy, flaunting, florid, forward, foxy, fresh, front, garish, gaudy, gilt, glaring, gold, golden, gold-filled, gold-plated, gorgeous, grating, greatly daring, gruff, guttural, hard, hardened, hardhearted, harsh, harsh-sounding, heartless, henna, hoarse, hubristic, husky, immodest, impertinent, improvident, imprudent, impudent, incautious, indiscreet, indurated, injudicious, insolent, inured, iron, ironlike, lead, leaden, liver-brown, liver-colored, livid-brown, lost to shame, loud, lurid, mafficking, mahogany, meet, meet boldly, meet head-on, mercurial, mercurous, meretricious, metallic, nickel, nickelic, nickeline, noiseful, noisy, notorious, obdurate, obstreperous, obtrusive, overbold, overcareless, overconfident, oversure, overweening, pert, pewter, pewtery, quicksilver, rackety, ragged, rash, raucid, raucous, reddish-brown, regardless of consequences, rip-roaring, roan, rough, roupy, rowdy, rubiginous, rude, rufous, run the gauntlet, russet, russety, rust, rust-colored, rusty, saucy, screaming, seared, sensational, set at defiance, shameless, shrill, silver, silver-plated, silvery, speak out, speak up, spectacular, squawking, squawky, stand up to, steel, steely, stertorous, strangled, strepitant, strepitous, strident, sunburned, swaggering, tawdry, temerarious, terra-cotta, thick, throaty, tin, tinny, Titian, tumultuous, turbulent, unabashed, unashamed, unblushing, unchary, unembarrassed, unmodest, unwary, uproarious, vociferous, vulgar |
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