Brazen \Bra"zen\, a.[OE. brasen, AS. br[ae]sen. See Brass.]
1. Pertaining to, made of, or resembling, brass.
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2. Sounding harsh and loud, like resounding brass.
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3. Impudent; immodest; shameless; having a front like brass;
as, a brazen countenance.
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Brazen age.
(a) (Myth.) The age of war and lawlessness which succeeded
the silver age.
(b) (Arch[ae]ol.) See under Bronze.
Brazen sea (Jewish Antiq.), a large laver of brass, placed
in Solomon's temple for the use of the priests.
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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.
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Sabina brazened it out before Mrs. Wygram, but inwardly
she was resolved to be a good deal more circumspect.
--W. Black.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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"
WordNet (r) 2.0
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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