Meanings
brassy1
comparative brassier · superlative brassiest
- Resembling brass.
The cup had a brassy color.
- informalImpudent; impudently bold.
Don’t get brassy with me, young lady!
1 more example
There's more than one way to declare independence, after all, and whereas Beyoncé announced hers with a brassy single, Ashanti tucks a similar spirit into every not-quite-heartbroken lyric.
2003 July 6, Kelefa Sanneh, “The Solo Beyoncé: She's No Ashanti”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Feb 2021 - Unfeeling; pitiless.
- Harsh in tone.
an organ stop with a brassy tone
brassy2
plural brassies
- alternativeAlternative form of brassie (“type of golf club”).
brassy3
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveresembling the sound of a brass instrument
adjectivetastelessly showy
adjectiveunrestrained by convention or propriety
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
brassy · adjective
From brass + -y (suffix forming adjectives meaning “having the quality of”).
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Finnish messinkimäinen, koppava
- messinkimäinenresembling brass
- koppavaimpudently bold
Turkish pirincimsi
- pirincimsiresembling brass
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with brassy
Cite this entry
brassy. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/brassy
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