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BRAZEN

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Dictionary entry overview: What does brazen mean?

• BRAZEN (adjective)
The adjective BRAZEN has 2 senses:

1. unrestrained by convention or propriety
2. made of or resembling brass (as in color or hardness)

Familiarity information: BRAZEN used as an adjective is rare.

• BRAZEN (verb)
The verb BRAZEN has 1 sense:

1. face with defiance or impudence

Familiarity information: BRAZEN used as a verb is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• BRAZEN (adjective)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Unrestrained by convention or propriety

Synonyms:

brazen; brazen-faced; audacious; bald-faced; barefaced; bodacious; insolent; 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)

Sense 2

brazen ^{[BACK TO TOP]}

Meaning:

Made of or resembling brass (as in color or hardness)

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

brass (an alloy of copper and zinc)

• BRAZEN (verb)

Sense 1

brazen ^{[BACK TO TOP]}

Meaning:

Face with defiance or impudence

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Context example:

brazen it out

Hypernyms (to "brazen" is one way to...):

dare; defy (challenge)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

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