brashness


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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.
[Possibly imitative (influenced by rash) or from brash, attack.]
brash′ly adv.
brash′ness n.

brash 2

 (brăsh)
n.
A mass or pile of rubble, refuse, or fragments, as of stone, brush, or ice.
[Perhaps an alteration of French brèche, breach in a wall, from Italian breccia; see breccia.]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.brashness - tasteless showinessbrashness - 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
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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.
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Translations

brashness

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

[ˈbræʃnɪs] n → effronterie f
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brashness

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