brassy (redirected from brassiest)

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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brassy

Adjective

[brassier, brassiest]

1. brazen or flashy

2. like brass, esp. in colour

3. (of sound) harsh and strident

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

adjective 2. brazen, forward, bold, brash, saucy, pushy (informal) pert, insolent, impudent, loud-mouthed, barefaced

adjective 3. flashy, loud, blatant, vulgar, gaudy, garish, jazzy (informal) showy, obtrusive << OPPOSITE discreet

Translations

brassy [ˈbrɑːsɪ] adj [colour] → messingfarben; [sound] → blechern; [appearance, behaviour] → auffällig