brassy meaning and definition

BRASSY adjective

Definition of brassy (adjective)

1. resembling the sound of a brass instrument
   • synonyms: 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"
   • synonyms: 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
   • synonyms: audacious, bald-faced, barefaced, bodacious, brazen, brazen-faced, insolent