BRASSY (brassier, brassiest)
Dictionary entry overview: What does brassy mean?
• BRASSY (adjective)
The adjective BRASSY has 3 senses:
1. resembling the sound of a brass instrument
2. tastelessly showy
3. unrestrained by convention or propriety
Familiarity information: BRASSY used as an adjective is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
• BRASSY (adjective)
Meaning:
Resembling the sound of a brass instrument
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Synonyms:
brasslike; brassy
Pertainym:
brass (a wind instrument that consists of a brass tube (usually of variable length) that is blown by means of a cup-shaped or funnel-shaped mouthpiece)
Meaning:
Tastelessly showy
Synonyms:
tawdry; gimcrack; gaudy; garish; flashy; flash; trashy; brassy; tatty; tacky; meretricious; loud; cheap
Context examples:
a flash car / a flashy ring / garish colors / a gaudy costume / loud sport shirts / a meretricious yet stylish book / tawdry ornaments
Similar:
tasteless (lacking aesthetic or social taste)
Meaning:
Unrestrained by convention or propriety
Synonyms:
brazen-faced; brazen; insolent; audacious; bodacious; barefaced; bald-faced; brassy
Context examples:
an audacious trick to pull / a barefaced hypocrite / the most bodacious display of tourism this side of Anaheim / bald-faced lies / brazen arrogance / the modern world with its quick material successes and insolent belief in the boundless possibilities of progress
Similar:
unashamed (used of persons or their behavior; feeling no shame)
