Meaning

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

  2. Sounding harsh and loud, like brass cymbals or brass instruments.

    metallisch, metallen, blechern

  3. Shameless or impudent; shocking or audacious; brash.

    She was brazen enough to deny stealing the handbag even though she was caught on camera doing so.

    dreist, schamlos, frech

    бессты́жийbesstýžij, на́глыйnáglyj, бессо́вестныйbessóvestnyj

    безсоро́мнийbezsorómnyj, нахабнийnaxabnyj, зухвалийzuxvalyj

  4. (archaic)Made of brass.

    messingen, aus Messing, Messing-

    латунныйlatunnyj

    латуннийlatunnyj

    made of or resembling brass (as in color or hardness)

  5. (archaic)Extremely strong; impenetrable; resolute.

    ehern, widerstandsfähig, undurchdringlich

Examples

6 sentences
  1. Tom's brazen act of defiance almost cost him his life.

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  2. Those brazen lies really shocked me.

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  3. Your brazen disregard for rules is unacceptable.

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  4. His brazen act of defiance almost cost him his life.

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  5. Yanni is getting more brazen by the day and Skura has had enough.

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Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 2
pertaining to, made of, or resembling brass:
impudent, immodest, or shameless:
Русский
By meaning 2
pertaining to, made of, or resembling brass:
impudent, immodest, or shameless:
Deutsch
By meaning 4
pertaining to, made of, or resembling brass:
sounding harsh and loud:
extremely strong:
impudent, immodest, or shameless:

Origin

From Middle English brasen, from Old English bræsen (“brazen, of brass”); equivalent to br

From Middle English brasen, from Old English bræsen (“brazen, of brass”); equivalent to brass + -en (compare golden, wooden, etc.).

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Forms

more brazen/brazener, most brazen/brazenest
Comparativemore brazen / brazener Lesson
Superlativemost brazen / brazenest Lesson

regular

Synonyms

7 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

10 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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