brassy

Meaning

Adj

1. Resembling brass.
2. (informal) Impudent; impudently bold.
3. Unfeeling; pitiless.
4. Harsh in tone.

Noun

Alternative form of brassie (“type of golf club”).

Noun

Kyphosus vaigiensis, a fish found in southeast Asia.

Synonyms

barefaced

brazen

audacious

brazen-faced

bodacious

flash

cheap

bald-faced

tawdry

insolent

flashy

tacky

garish

gaudy

gimcrack

fresh

tatty

loud

trashy

meretricious

brasslike

saucy

shameless

sonant

soniferous

sonorous

squirt

tinny

ungraceful

ill-chosen

beggarlike

procacious

bold

bold-faced

braggart

brass

cheeky

clangorous

clattery

confident

forward

graceless

impertinent

jangling

jangly

jarring

mouthy

orotund

presumptuous

resonant

Translations

sfrontato

impudente

onbeschaamd

insolent

sfacciato

διαπεραστικός

messingartig

χτύπημα

impudent

unverfroren

insolent

αναιδής

μπρούντζινος

insolente

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈbɹɑː.si/

Etymology

From brass + -y (suffix forming adjectives meaning “having the quality of”).