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Synonyms for brassy

  • adjective

Most common

sassy brazen brash impudent loud flashy brassish brasslike

Synonyms by meaning

Adjective

1. Brazen — impudent; impudently bold

brazen, brash, impudent, sassy, pert, bold, insolent, cheeky, bodacious, brazen-faced, audacious, unashamed, bare-faced, bald-faced, forward, irreverent, unabashed, impertinent, shameless, naughty, blatant, chutzpadik

2. Flashy

flashy, loud, garish, gaudy, tawdry, trashy, tacky, obtrusive, cheap, flash, tatty, meretricious, gimcrack, tasteless, glaring

Other

sauce-y, brassish, brasslike

Definitions

  1. adj. 1

    Impudent; impudently bold.

    Don’t get brassy with me, young lady!

  2. adj. 2

    Resembling brass.

    The cup had a brassy color.

Related words

Word family
brass brazen
Other spellings
brassey brassie

Example sentences

  • sassy William became really talkative and sassy.
  • brazen His brazen act of defiance almost cost him his life.
  • brash I don't like his brash way of talking.
  • impudent The impudent child extended her legs across my lap.
  • loud She carried on talking in spite of the loud noise.
  • flashy Yanni bought Skura flashy and expensive things.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
brassysteady
sassyrising
brazenrising
brashrising
impudentsteady
loudrising

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

4 letters
loud1, bold1, pert1
5 letters
cheap1, flash1, sassy2, tacky2, brash1, gaudy2, tatty2
6 letters
cheeky2, flashy2, brazen2, trashy2, garish2, tawdry2
7 letters
forward2, naughty2, blatant2, glaring2
8 letters
insolent3, impudent, gimcrack, brassish
9 letters
shameless2, audacious3, tasteless2, unabashed3, unashamed3, obtrusive3, bodacious, brasslike
10 letters
irreverent4, chutzpadik
11 letters
impertinent4
12 letters
meretricious

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (sassy2 = 2 syllables).