brassy (redirected from brassier)

brass·y ¹  (brs)

adj. brass·i·er, brass·i·est

1. Made of or decorated with brass.

2. Resembling brass, as in color.

3. Music Resembling or characterized by the sound of brass instruments: "The band was now playing some brassy march" (Robert Penn Warren).

4. Cheap and showy; flashy.

5. Informal Brazen; insolent.

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brassi·ly adv.

brassi·ness n.

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brass·y ²  (brs)

n.

Variant of brassie.

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brassy [ˈbrɑːsɪ]

adj brassier, brassiest

1. insolent; brazen

2. flashy; showy

3. (of sound) harsh, strident, or resembling the sound of a brass instrument

4. like brass, esp in colour

5. decorated with or made of brass

6. a variant spelling of brassie

brassily  adv

brassiness  n

Thesaurus

Adj.	1.	brassy - resembling the sound of a brass instrument brasslike
	2.	brassy - tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments" flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, tawdry, trashy, cheap, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty tasteless - lacking aesthetic or social taste
	3.	brassy - 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; "bald-faced lies"; "brazen arrogance"; "the modern world with its quick material successes and insolent belief in the boundless possibilities of progress"- Bertrand Russell brazen, brazen-faced, insolent, audacious, bald-faced, barefaced, bodacious unashamed - used of persons or their behavior; feeling no shame

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brassy

adjective

1. strident, loud, harsh, piercing, jarring, noisy, grating, raucous, blaring, shrill, jangling, dissonant, cacophonous Musicians blast their brassy jazz from street corners.

2. brazen, forward, bold, brash, saucy, pushy (informal), pert, insolent, impudent, loud-mouthed, barefaced Alec and his brassy blonde wife

3. flashy, loud, blatant, vulgar, gaudy, garish, jazzy (informal), showy, obtrusive A woman with big brassy ear-rings
flashy quiet, modest, restrained, discreet, subdued, played down, low-key, understated, toned down

Translations

brassy [ˈbrɑːsɪ] ADJ (brassier (compar) (brassiest (superl)))

1. (= like brass) (in colour) → dorado, de color dorado; (= cheap) → ordinario

2. (= harsh) [sound] → estridente; (= metallic) → metálico

3. [person] → descarado

brassy [ˈbrɑːsi ˈbræsi ˈbrɑːsi] adj

[music] → assourdissant(e)

[woman] → provocant(e)

(= metallic) → doré(e)
bra strap n → bretelle f de soutien-gorge

brassy

adj (+er)

metal → messingartig; hair, blonde → messingfarben; sound → blechern

(inf, = impudent) → frech, dreist

(pej: = flashy) woman → aufgedonnert (pej inf)

brassy [ˈbraːsɪ] adj (-ier (comp) (-iest (superl))) (voice, sound) → squillante; (colour) → chiassoso/a (pej) (tone) → insolente; (woman) → appariscente

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brassy [ˈbraːsɪ] adj (-ier (comp) (-iest (superl))) (voice, sound) → squillante; (colour) → chiassoso/a (pej) (tone) → insolente; (woman) → appariscente