brassy

Plural: brassies

Adjective

• Resembling brass in color or loudness; bold and showy.
• resembling the sound of a brass instrument

Adjective Satellite

• tastelessly showy
• unrestrained by convention or propriety; ; ; - Los Angeles Times; ; ; - Bertrand Russell

Adj

• Resembling brass.
• Impudent; impudently bold.
• Unfeeling; pitiless.
• Harsh in tone.

Noun

• Alternative form of brassie (“type of golf club”).
• Kyphosus vaigiensis, a fish found in southeast Asia.

Examples

• an organ stop with a brassy tone
• Don’t get brassy with me, young lady!
• His BRASSY triple word score play left me stunned and a bit annoyed.
• The cup had a brassy color.

Synonyms

audacious, bald-faced, barefaced, bodacious, brasslike, brazen, brazen-faced, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, insolent, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy, brassish, sassy

Related Words

brass, brazen, BRASSILY

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