brassy

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adjective

1. resembling the sound of a brass instrument (Freq. 1)
• Syn:
brasslike
• Pertains to noun:
brass (for: brasslike), brass
• Derivationally related forms:
brass
2. tastelessly showy
- a flash car
- a flashy ring
- garish colors
- a gaudy costume
- loud sport shirts
- a meretricious yet stylish book
- tawdry ornaments
• Syn:
cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy,
gaudy, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty,
tawdry, trashy
• Similar to:
tasteless
• Derivationally related forms:
trashiness (for: trashy), tawdriness (for: tawdry), tat (for: tatty), tackiness (for: tacky), meretriciousness (for: meretricious), loudness (for: loud), gaud (for: gaudy), gaudiness (for: gaudy), garishness (for: garish), flashiness (for: flashy), flash (for: flash), cheapness (for: cheap)
3. 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
• Syn:
audacious, barefaced, bodacious, bald-faced, brazen,
brazen-faced, insolent
• Similar to:
unashamed
• Derivationally related forms:
insolence (for: insolent), brazenness (for: brazen), brass, audacity (for: audacious), audaciousness (for: audacious)

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  audacious, barefaced, bodacious, bald-faced, brazen, brazen-faced, insolent, brasslike