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- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
brazen \bra"zen\, a.oe. brasen, as. braesen. see brass.
1. pertaining to, made of, or resembling, brass.
1913 webster
2. sounding harsh and loud, like resounding brass.
1913 webster
3. impudent; immodest; shameless; having a front like brass;
as, a brazen countenance.
1913 webster
brazen age.
a myth. the age of war and lawlessness which succeeded
the silver age.
b archaeol. see under bronze.
brazen sea jewish antiq., a large laver of brass, placed
in solomon's temple for the use of the priests.
1913 webster
see also:
brass brazen age bronze brazen sea
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
brazen \bra"zen\, v. t. imp. p. p. brazened; p. pr. vb.
n. brazening.
to carry through impudently or shamelessly; as, to brazen the
matter through.
1913 webster
sabina brazened it out before mrs. wygram, but inwardly
she was resolved to be a good deal more circumspect.
--w. black.
1913 webster
see also:
brazened brazening
- [3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
brazen
adj 1: 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; "bold-faced lies"; "brazen arrogance"; "the
modern world with its quick material successes and
insolent belief in the boundless possibilities of
progress"- bertrand russell syn: audacious, barefaced,
bodacious, bold-faced, brassy, brazen-faced,
insolent
2: made of or resembling brass as in color or hardness
v : face with defiance or impudence; "brazen it out"
see also:
audacious barefaced bodacious bold-faced brassy brazen-faced
insolent
- [4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
231 moby thesaurus words for "brazen":
titian, adust, affront, arrant, arrogant, auburn, audacious,
aureate, aweless, barefaced, bay, bay-colored, bayard, beard,
bell the cat, bite the bullet, blaring, blatant, blatting,
blustering, boisterous, bold, bold as brass, boldfaced, brash,
brass, brassy, brave, brawling, brazen out, brazenfaced, bronze,
bronze-colored, bronzed, bronzy, brownish-red, bumptious, callous,
calloused, candid, case-hardened, castaneous, challenging, cheeky,
chestnut, chestnut-brown, chintzy, choked, clamant, clamorous,
clamoursome, clanging, clangorous, clattery, coarse, cocky,
colorful, confront, conscienceless, contemptuous, contumelious,
copper, copper-colored, coppery, cracked, croaking, croaky, crude,
cupreous, cuprous, daring, defiant, defying, derisive, disdainful,
disregardful, dry, exhibitionistic, extravagant, face,
face the music, face up, face up to, ferrous, ferruginous,
flagrant, flaring, flashy, flaunting, forward, foxy, fresh, front,
garish, gaudy, gilt, glaring, gold, gold-filled, gold-plated,
golden, gorgeous, greatly daring, gruff, guttural, hard, hardened,
hardhearted, harsh, harsh-sounding, heartless, henna, hoarse,
hubristic, husky, immodest, impertinent, improvident, imprudent,
impudent, incautious, indiscreet, indurated, injudicious, insolent,
inured, iron, ironlike, lead, leaden, liver-brown, liver-colored,
livid-brown, lost to shame, loud, lurid, mafficking, mahogany,
meet, meet boldly, meet head-on, mercurial, mercurous,
meretricious, metallic, nickel, nickelic, nickeline, noiseful,
noisy, notorious, obdurate, obstreperous, obtrusive, open,
outspoken, overbold, overcareless, overconfident, oversure,
overweening, pert, pewter, pewtery, procacious, quicksilver,
rackety, ragged, rash, raucid, raucous, reddish-brown,
regardless of consequences, rip-roaring, roan, rough, roupy, rowdy,
rubiginous, rude, rufous, run the gauntlet, russet, russety, rust,
rust-colored, rusty, sassy, saucy, screaming, seared, sensational,
set at defiance, shameless, silver, silver-plated, silvery,
speak out, speak up, spectacular, squawking, squawky, stand up to,
steel, steely, stertorous, strangled, strepitant, strepitous,
sunburned, swaggering, tawdry, temerarious, terra-cotta, thick,
throaty, tin, tinny, tinsel, tumultuous, turbulent, unabashed,
unashamed, unblushing, unchary, unembarrassed, unmodest, unwary,
uproarious, vociferous, vulgar
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