Brazen

Quick meaning: Brazen is an adjective meaning (figuratively) Brass-like in appearance or character; bright, ruddy, hard.

Meaning

(figuratively) Brass-like in appearance or character; bright, ruddy, hard.

More Meanings

1. Sounding harsh and loud, like brass cymbals or brass instruments.
2. Shameless or impudent; shocking or audacious; brash.
3. (intransitive) To turn a brass color.
4. (transitive) Generally followed by out or through: to carry through in a brazen manner; to act boldly despite embarrassment, risk, etc.
5. (archaic) Made of brass.
6. (archaic) Extremely strong; impenetrable; resolute.

Example Sentences

Through the brazen hours that followed high noon, we crept onwards through a tunnel of glittering verdure.

The women, stout, strong, brazen-faced creatures, in most cases looked able to thrash any of the partners with whom they consorted.

The giant [Goliath] was thus conquered by the youth [David]; the man-at-arms by the unarmed; the stone of the shepherd pierced the brazen defences of the warrior.

Often a traveller, when the air is quiet, / Will make the night reverberate with this riot / Of brazen sounds, whose singing cadence swells / The harmony of bleating and lambs' bells.

Word Forms

• brazener
• brazenest
• brasen
• brazens
• brazening
• brazened

Synonyms for brazen

Depending on context, synonyms include audacious, brassy, insolent, bodacious, barefaced, unashamed.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include brassy, bodacious, audacious, insolent, bold-faced, barefaced.

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