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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (3)

1. resembling the sound of a brass instrument;
[syn: brassy, brasslike]

2. tastelessly showy;
- Example: "a flash car"
- Example: "a flashy ring"
- Example: "garish colors"
- Example: "a gaudy costume"
- Example: "loud sport shirts"
- Example: "a meretricious yet stylish book"
- Example: "tawdry ornaments"
[syn: brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy]

3. unrestrained by convention or propriety;
- Example: "an audacious trick to pull"
- Example: "a barefaced hypocrite"
- Example: "the most bodacious display of tourism this side of Anaheim"- Los Angeles Times
- Example: "bald-faced lies"
- Example: "brazen arrogance"
- Example: "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, brassy, brazen, brazen-faced, insolent]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Brassy \Brass"y\, n. [Written also brassie and brassey.]
   (Golf)
   A wooden club soled with brass.
   [Webster 1913 Suppl.]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Brassy \Brass"y\, a.
   1. Of or pertaining to brass; having the nature, appearance,
      or hardness, of brass.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. Impudent; impudently bold. [Colloq.]
      [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

brassy
    adj 1: resembling the sound of a brass instrument [syn:
           brassy, brasslike]
    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:
       brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy,
       gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty,
       tawdry, trashy]
    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,
       brassy, brazen, brazen-faced, insolent]