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Synonyms of the word 
BRASSY → AUDACIOUS - BALD-FACED - BAREFACED - BODACIOUS - BRAZEN - BRAZEN-FACED - CHEAP - FLASH - FLASHY - GARISH - GAUDY - GIMCRACK - INSOLENT - LOUD - MERETRICIOUS - TACKY - TASTELESS - TATTY - TAWDRY - TRASHY - UNASHAMED - WINDbrassy- adj. Resembling brass.
- adj. (informal) Impudent; impudently bold.
- n. Same as brassie.
- n. Kyphosus vaigiensis, a fish found in southeast Asia.
audacious- adj. Showing willingness to take bold risks; recklessly daring.
- adj. Impudent.
bald-faced- adj. (of an animal) having white markings on the face.
- adj. shameless and undisguised; barefaced.
barefaced- adj. Undisguisedly offensive and bold; crude; coarse; brazen.
- adj. Open, undisguised.
- adj. Unbearded (not having a beard or other facial hair).
bodacious- adj. (US) Audacious and unrestrained.
- adj. (US) Incorrigible and insolent.
- adj. (Australian slang, US slang) Impressively great in size, and enormous; extraordinary.
- adj. (of a person) Sexy, attractive.
- adv. (US, nonstandard) Bodaciously.
brazen- adj. (archaic) Pertaining to, made of, or resembling brass (in color or strength).
- adj. Sounding harsh and loud, like brass cymbals or brass instruments.
- adj. (archaic) Extremely strong; impenetrable; resolute.
- adj. Shamelessly shocking and offensive; audacious; impudent; barefaced; immodest, unblushing.
- v. (intransitive) To turn a brass color.
- v. (transitive) Generally followed by out or through: to carry through in a brazen manner; to act boldly…
brazen-faced- adj. Impudent; open and without shame.
cheap- n. (obsolete) Trade; traffic; chaffer; chaffering.
- n. (obsolete) A market; marketplace.
- n. Price.
- n. (obsolete) A low price; a bargain.
- n. Cheapness; lowness of price; abundance of supply.
- adj. Low and/or reduced in price.
- adj. Of poor quality.
- adj. Of little worth.
- adj. (slang, of an action or tactic in a game of skill) Underhand or unfair.
- adj. (chiefly Canada, US, derogatory) Ungenerous; stingy, mean (UK), tightfisted, excessively frugal.
- v. (intransitive, obsolete) To trade; traffic; bargain; chaffer; ask the price of goods; cheapen goods.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To bargain for; chaffer for; ask the price of; offer a price for; cheapen.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To buy; purchase.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To sell.
- adv. Cheaply.
flash- v. To briefly illuminate a scene.
- v. To blink; to shine or illuminate intermittently.
- v. To be visible briefly.
- v. To make visible briefly.
- v. (transitive, intransitive, informal) To briefly, and in most cases inadvertently, expose one's naked body…
- v. (transitive, informal) To show or expose an "inappropriate" part of the body to someone for humorous reasons…
- v. (figuratively) To break forth like a sudden flood of light; to show a momentary brilliance.
- v. To flaunt; to display in a showy manner.
- v. To communicate quickly.
- v. To move, or cause to move, suddenly.
- v. (transitive) To telephone a person, only allowing the phone to ring once, in order to request a call back.
- v. (intransitive, of liquid) To evaporate suddenly. (See flash evaporation.).
- v. (transitive, climbing) To climb (a route) successfully on the first attempt.
- v. (computing) To write to the memory of an updatable component such as a BIOS chip or games cartridge.
- v. (glassmaking) To cover with a thin layer, as objects of glass with glass of a different colour.
- v. (juggling) To perform a flash.
- v. (metallurgy) To release the pressure from a pressurized vessel.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To trick up in a showy manner.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To strike and throw up large bodies of water from the surface; to splash.
- n. A sudden, short, temporary burst of light.
- n. A very short amount of time.
- n. (colloquial, US) A flashlight; an electric torch.
- n. (figuratively) A sudden and brilliant burst, as of genius or wit.
- n. Material left around the edge of a moulded part at the parting line of the mould.
- n. (Britain, Cockney) The strips of bright cloth or buttons worn around the collars of market traders.
- n. (juggling) A pattern where each prop is thrown and caught only once.
- n. (linguistics) A language, created by a minority to maintain cultural identity, that cannot be understood…
- n. (photography) Clipping of camera flash (“a device used to produce a flash of artificial light to help…
- n. (archaic) A preparation of capsicum, burnt sugar, etc., for colouring liquor to make it look stronger.
- adj. (Britain and New Zealand, slang) Expensive-looking and demanding attention; stylish; showy.
- adj. (Britain, of a person) Having plenty of ready money.
- adj. (Britain, of a person) Liable to show off expensive possessions or money.
- adj. (US, slang) Occurring very rapidly, almost instantaneously.
- n. A pool.
- n. (engineering) A reservoir and sluiceway beside a navigable stream, just above a shoal, so that the stream…
flashy- adj. Showy; visually impressive, attention-getting, or appealing.
- adj. (dated, poetic) Flashing; producing flashes.
garish- adj. Overly ostentatious; so colourful as to be in bad taste.
gaudy- adj. very showy or ornamented, now especially when excessive, or in a tasteless or vulgar manner.
- adj. (obsolete) gay; merry; festive.
- n. One of the large beads in the rosary at which the paternoster is recited.
- n. A reunion held by one of the colleges of the University of Oxford for alumni, normally held during the…
gimcrack- adj. Showy but of poor quality; worthless.
- n. Something showy but worthless; a gimmick or bauble.
insolent- adj. Insulting in manner or words.
- adj. Rude.
- adj. Cheeky.
- n. A person who is insolent.
loud- adj. (of a sound) Of great intensity.
- adj. (of a person, thing, event, etc.) Noisy.
- adj. (of a person, event, etc.) Not subtle or reserved, brash.
- adj. (of clothing, decorations, etc.) Having unpleasantly and tastelessly contrasting colours or patterns;…
- adj. (of marijuana, slang) High-quality; premium; (by extension) having a strong or pungent odour indicating…
- adv. Loudly.
- n. (slang) High-quality marijuana.
meretricious- adj. Tastelessly gaudy; superficially attractive but having in reality no value or substance; falsely alluring.
- adj. (law) Involving unlawful sexual connection or lack of consent by at least one party (said of a romantic…
- adj. (obsolete) Of, or relating to prostitutes or prostitution.
tacky- adj. Of a substance, slightly sticky.
- adj. (colloquial) Of low quality.
- adj. (colloquial) In poor taste.
- adj. Gaudy, flashy, showy, garish.
- adj. Dowdy, shabbily dressed.
- adj. Shabby, dowdy in one's appearance.
- n. Alternative form of tackey.
tasteless- adj. Having no flavour; bland, insipid.
- adj. Lacking delicacy, refinement and good taste; unbecoming, crass.
tatty- n. (Northern England, Geordie, slang) potato.
- adj. Tattered; dilapidated, distressed, worn-out, torn.
- n. (India) A woven mat or screen hung at a door or window and kept wet to moisten and cool the air as it…
tawdry- adj. (of clothing, appearance, etc.) Cheap and gaudy; showy.
- adj. (of character, behavior, situations, etc.) Unseemly, base, shameful.
trashy- adj. Like trash; containing much trash.
unashamed- adj. feeling or showing no shame, embarrassment or remorse.
wind- n. (countable, uncountable) Real or perceived movement of atmospheric air usually caused by convection or…
- n. Air artificially put in motion by any force or action.
- n. (countable, uncountable) The ability to breathe easily.
- n. News of an event, especially by hearsay or gossip. (Used with catch, often in the past tense.).
- n. (India and Japan) One of the five basic elements (see Wikipedia article on the Classical elements).
- n. (uncountable, colloquial) Flatus.
- n. Breath modulated by the respiratory and vocal organs, or by an instrument.
- n. A direction from which the wind may blow; a point of the compass; especially, one of the cardinal points,…
- n. A disease of sheep, in which the intestines are distended with air, or rather affected with a violent…
- n. Mere breath or talk; empty effort; idle words.
- n. A bird, the dotterel.
- n. (boxing, slang) The region of the solar plexus, where a blow may paralyze the diaphragm and cause temporary…
- v. (transitive) To blow air through a wind instrument or horn to make a sound.
- v. (transitive) To cause (someone) to become breathless, often by a blow to the abdomen.
- v. (reflexive) To exhaust oneself to the point of being short of breath.
- v. (Britain) To turn a boat or ship around, so that the wind strikes it on the opposite side.
- v. (transitive) To expose to the wind; to winnow; to ventilate.
- v. (transitive) To perceive or follow by scent.
- v. (transitive) To rest (a horse, etc.) in order to allow the breath to be recovered; to breathe.
- v. (transitive) To turn a windmill so that its sails face into the wind.
- v. (transitive) To turn coils of (a cord or something similar) around something.
- v. (transitive) To tighten the spring of a clockwork mechanism such as that of a clock.
- v. To entwist; to enfold; to encircle.
- v. (ergative) To travel, or to cause something to travel, in a way that is not straight.
- v. To have complete control over; to turn and bend at one's pleasure; to vary or alter or will; to regulate;…
- v. To introduce by insinuation; to insinuate.
- v. To cover or surround with something coiled about.
- n. The act of winding or turning; a turn; a bend; a twist.
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