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brassy
Overview of adj brassy
The adj brassy has 3 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (1) brassy, brasslike -- (resembling the sound of a brass instrument)
2. brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy -- (tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments")
3. audacious, barefaced, bodacious, bald-faced, brassy, brazen, brazen-faced, insolent -- (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)
Antonyms of adj brassy
2 of 3 senses of brassy
Sense 2
brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy
INDIRECT (VIA tasteless) -> tasteful
Sense 3
audacious, barefaced, bodacious, bald-faced, brassy, brazen, brazen-faced, insolent
INDIRECT (VIA unashamed) -> ashamed
Similarity of adj brassy
3 senses of brassy
Sense 1
brassy, brasslike
Pertains to noun brass (Sense 2)
=>brass, brass instrument
=> wind instrument, wind
Sense 2
brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy
=> tasteless (vs. tasteful)
Sense 3
audacious, barefaced, bodacious, bald-faced, brassy, brazen, brazen-faced, insolent
=> unashamed (vs. ashamed)
Pertainyms of adj brassy
1 of 3 senses of brassy
Sense 1
brassy, brasslike
Pertains to noun brass (Sense 2)
=>brass, brass instrument
=> wind instrument, wind
Attributes of adj brassy
Domain of adj brassy
Domain Terms of adj brassy
Familiarity of adj brassy
brassy used as an adjective is uncommon (polysemy count =3)
Grep of adj brassy
brassy
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