brassy Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective resembling the sound of a brass instrument
    brasslike.
  2. adjective satellite tastelessly showy
    garish; gaudy; meretricious; tatty; tawdry; flash; cheap; flashy; tacky; gimcrack; loud; trashy.
    • a flash car
    • a flashy ring
    • garish colors
    • a gaudy costume
    • loud sport shirts
    • a meretricious yet stylish book
    • tawdry ornaments
  3. adjective satellite unrestrained by convention or propriety
    insolent; bodacious; audacious; brazen; bald-faced; barefaced; brazen-faced.
    • 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

WordNet


Brass"y adjective
Definitions
  1. Of or pertaining to brass; having the nature, appearance, or hardness, of brass.
  2. Impudent; impudently bold. Colloq.

Webster 1913