brashness

brash ¹

 (brăsh)

adj. brash·er, brash·est

1. Presumptuously forward; impudent: "She couldn't imagine anyone being happy with this loud, brash, opinionated businessman" (Anne Bartlett). See Synonyms at shameless.

2. Hasty or unrestrained without regard for consequences: "his brash, ill-considered attacks on members of his own party" (Susan Dunn).

3. Arresting, pronounced, or ostentatious: brash plaids.

4. Brittle: brash timbers.

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[Possibly imitative (influenced by rash) or from brash, attack.]

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brash′ly adv.

brash′ness n.

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brash ²

 (brăsh)

n.

A mass or pile of rubble, refuse, or fragments, as of stone, brush, or ice.

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[Perhaps an alteration of French brèche, breach in a wall, from Italian breccia; see breccia.]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	brashness - tasteless showiness       flashiness, garishness, gaudiness, glitz, tawdriness, loudness, meretriciousness tastelessness - inelegance indicated by a lack of good taste
	2.	brashness - the trait of being rash and hasty foolhardiness, recklessness, rashness - the trait of giving little thought to danger

brashness

noun

1. Foolhardy boldness or disregard of danger:

foolhardiness, incautiousness, rashness, recklessness, temerariousness, temerity.

2. The state or quality of being impudent or arrogantly self-confident:

assumption, audaciousness, audacity, boldness, brazenness, cheek, cheekiness, chutzpah, discourtesy, disrespect, effrontery, face, familiarity, forwardness, gall, impertinence, impudence, impudency, incivility, insolence, nerve, nerviness, overconfidence, pertness, presumptuousness, pushiness, rudeness, sassiness, sauciness.

Informal: brass, crust, sauce, uppishness, uppityness.

Translations

Frechheit

brashness

[ˈbræʃnɪs] N (= over-confidence) → presunción f; (= rashness) → impetuosidad f

brashness

[ˈbræʃnɪs] n → effronterie f

brashness

n → nassforsche Art, Dreistigkeit f; (of colour etc) → Aufdringlichkeit f