Bratty

Quick meaning: Bratty is an adjective meaning Characteristic of a brat; unruly and impolite.

Meaning

Characteristic of a brat; unruly and impolite.

More Meanings

1. (neologism) Characteristic of a brat (the qualities possessed by a confident and assertive woman).
2. (India) A cake of dried cow dung, used for fuel.

Example Sentences

I'm revisiting all my favorite Y2K trends, including slogan tees, trucker hats, wedge flip-flops, and barbed wire tramp stamps. Diesel and Miaou are two brands that feel particularly bratty to me, and I'm dreaming about this strawberry latex halter specifically.

When Laura tells Bart that she can teach him to dance, Bart and Laura are suddenly transformed into Astaire and Rogers in a black-and-white fantasy sequence before Bart’s reverie is abruptly ended when Laura reverts back to bratty tomboy form and gives him a wedgie.

Tennis champion Naomi Osaka is back in the U.S. Open for the first time in two years, and she’s off to a spectacular start. Not only did she win her first-round match against No. 10 seed Jelena Ostapenko early on Thursday, but she stepped onto the court into one of the best (and brattiest) outfits we’ve seen in the past few years.

Critics are increasingly examining their prejudice towards media that has been derided for its femininity, girlishness and brattiness – perhaps most notably, Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette, a film that is now praised for the bratty qualities it was derided for in 2006. Indeed, online music magazine Pitchfork "rescored" Charli's EP Vroom Vroom from a 4.5 upon its release in 2016 to a 7.8 in 2021.

Word Forms

• brattier
• brattiest
• bratties

Synonyms for bratty

Depending on context, synonyms include impolite, brattish.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include impolite, brutist, rude, brassy, rudesome, boorish.

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