Definitions for 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)