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BRASSY
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Irregular inflected forms: brassier , brassiest
I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Unrestrained by convention or propriety
Example:
the modern world with its quick material successes and insolent belief in the boundless possibilities of progress
Synonyms:
audacious; bald-faced; barefaced; bodacious; brassy; brazen; brazen-faced; insolent
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Similar:
unashamed (used of persons or their behavior; feeling no shame)
Derivation:
brass (impudent aggressiveness)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Tastelessly showy
Example:
tawdry ornaments
Synonyms:
brassy; cheap; flash; flashy; garish; gaudy; gimcrack; loud; meretricious; tacky; tatty; tawdry; trashy
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Similar:
tasteless (lacking aesthetic or social taste)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Resembling the sound of a brass instrument
Synonyms:
brasslike; brassy
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Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
brass (a wind instrument that consists of a brass tube (usually of variable length) that is blown by means of a cup-shaped or funnel-shaped mouthpiece)
Derivation:
brass (a wind instrument that consists of a brass tube (usually of variable length) that is blown by means of a cup-shaped or funnel-shaped mouthpiece)
brass (the section of a band or orchestra that plays brass instruments)
