Brazen

Definition: Brazen

Brazen

Adjective

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.

2. Made of or resembling brass (as in color or hardness).

Verb

1. Face with defiance or impudence; "brazen it out".

Date "brazen" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Synonyms: Brazen

Synonyms: audacious (adj), barefaced (adj), bodacious (adj), bold-faced (adj), brassy (adj), brazen-faced (adj), insolent (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Insolence	Out face, outlook, outstare, outbrazen, outbrave; stare out of countenance; brazen out; lay down the law; teach one's grandmother to suck eggs; assume a lofty bearing; talk big, look big; put on big looks, act the grand seigneur; mount the high horse, ride the high horse; toss the head, carry, with a high hand.
	Bluff; brazen, shameless, aweless, unblushlng, unabashed; brazen, boldfaced-, barefaced-, brazen-faced; dead to shame, lost to shame.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Brazen

English words defined with "brazen": Brasen, Brazened, Brazening, brazenly ♦ Kitchen lee ♦ Nehushtan ♦ Outbrazen ♦ tout, touter. (references)

Specialty definitions using "brazen": Ages ♦ Boaz, Brazen Head ♦ Corinthian Brass, Cromeruach' ♦ Dances ♦ GIFTS, Gods, Golden Shower ♦ IMMODEST, Inventors Punished ♦ Mambrino's Helmet ♦ Oboth ♦ Perillos and the Brazen Bull ♦ redress ♦ Salmoneus ♦ Urijah. (references)

Etymologies containing "brazen": Brass. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	They used to bring their women here - brazen, lolling creatures in silks and satins (The Old Dark House; writing credit: J.B. Priestley; Benn W. Levy) Angel, a monument to unholy carnality, and a cesspool of marital pollution, a shameless, brazen, bulldozing female prepared to humiliate, provoke, and tantalize, savagely seeking the tranquilizer of unrestrained fulfillment (Good Morning... and Goodbye!; writing credit: Jack Moran)
Movie/TV Titles	The Brazen Bell (1962) Richard the Brazen (1917)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Brazen (reference) Brazen Angel (reference) Brazen Heiress (reference) Brazen Temptress (reference) Brazen Virtue (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Brazen Arrows (reference) Brazen Head [EP] [EP] (reference) Brazen Weep Pt.3 [CD-SINGLE] [IMPORT] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	The brazen serpent / painted by Gustave Doré ; engraved by Alphonse François/Membre de la Institut de France. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Play	Caption
	Hot rod; muscle car; engine; rev; revving; 8-cylinder; fast; drag racing; car racing; brash; brassy; brazen; chintzy; coarse; crass; crude; flamboyant; flashy; garish; gaudy; glaring; lurid; meretricious; obnoxious; obtrusive; ostentatious; raucous; rude.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Title	Author	Quote
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Joyce, James	With one foot on the sea and one foot on the land he blew from the archangelical trumpet the brazen death of time
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	REDRESS, n. Reparation without satisfaction. Among the Anglo-Saxon a subject conceiving himself wronged by the king was permitted, on proving his injury, to beat a brazen image of the royal offender with a switch that was afterward applied to his own naked back. The latter rite was performed by the public hangman, and it assured moderation in the plaintiff's choice of a switch.
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Brazen" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 78.95% of the time. "Brazen" is used about 76 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	78.95%	60	43,597
Noun (singular)	19.74%	15	90,616
Noun (proper)	1.32%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	76	N/A

The following table summarizes the usage of "brazen" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Brazen	Last name	130	58,293
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

Expressions using "brazen": Brazen age ♦ brazen faced ♦ brazen it out ♦ brazen law of wages ♦ brazen out ♦ Brazen sea. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "brazen": Brazen-browed, brazen-faced, brazen-hussy-like.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "brazen"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i tunxhtë (brassy), i pacipë (arrogant, audacious, barefaced, brassy, brazen faced, bumptious, cheeky, contumelious, coxy, immodest, impertinent, impudent, insolent, nervy, perky, pert, saucy, shameless, unblushing). (various references)

Arabic		‏معدني (metallic, mineral), ‏نحاسي اللون (copper, cupreous), ‏نحاسي (copper, coppery, cuprous), ‏وقح (abrasive, barefaced, blatant, bold, cool, flippant, hardy, impertinent, impudent, insolent, nervy, off hand, overbold, pert, presuming, presumptuous, rascal, rude, sassy, saucy, scamp, shameless, smart), ‏واجه بتحدى (outface), ‏صفيق (cheeky, impudent, overbold, shameless). (various references)

Bulgarian		меден (copper, cupreous, honey, honeyed, honied, mellifluent, mellifluous), бронзов (bronzed), безсрамен (barefaced, brassy, graceless, immodest, impudent, outre, shameless, unabashed, unashamed, unscrupulous). (various references)

Chinese		脸大. (various references)

Czech		tvrdý (big, callous, crackdown, cruel, deep, hard, harsh, heavy, relentless, rigorous, sound, steely, stiff, stone-dead, stony, tough, unkind), mosazný (brass, brassy), drzý (audacious, barefaced, bold, brash, bumptious, cheeky, chesty, cool, fresh, impertinent, impudent, insolent, nervy, pert, saucy, smart, unbridled), žlutý (amber, jaundiced, yellow). (various references)

Danish		fræk (impertinent, rude). (various references)

Dutch		brutaal (abandoned, audacious, bold, daring, impertinent, impudent, intrepid, rude), vrýpostig (free and easy, impertinent, rude), schaamteloos (abandoned, abandonedly, impudent), onbeschaamd (abandoned, impertinent, impudent, rude), driest (abandoned, daring, impudent). (various references)

Faeroese		illavorðin (impertinent, rude), frekur (impertinent, rude), óreinur (impertinent, rude). (various references)

Farsi		گستاخی کردن (Blab), بی پرواءی نشان دادن , بی شرم (Barefaced, Brash, Brassy, Immodest, Unabashed), بی باک (Audacious, Bold, Daredevil, Dashing, Heroic, Intrepid, Stalwart, Venturer), برنجی . (various references)

Finnish		julkea (arrogant, gross, impudent, insolent), häpeämätön (shameless, unashamed). (various references)

French		impudent, hardi, effronté, cuivré (brassy), éhonté. (various references)

Frisian		skamteleas (abandoned, impudent). (various references)

German		ehern (bronze, copper, made of ore), unverschämt (abandoned, barefaced, blatant, bold, brash, brazen faced, brazenly, contumelious, exorbitant, impertinent, impertinently, impudent, impudently, insolent, insolently, insulting, nervy, obscene, offensive, offensively, outrageous, rude, sassy, saucy, tacky, unashamedly, unblushing, unconscionable, unconscionably, wicked), frech (barefaced, bold, brassy, cheekily, cheeky, cocky, fresh, impertinent, impudent, impudently, insolent, insultingly, naughtily, naughty, nervy, perkily, ribald, rude, sassy, saucily, saucy, unblushingly, wicked). (various references)

Greek		μπρούτζοσ, ασύστολος (impudent, shameless), αυθάδησ (arrogant, audacious, brash, flippant, forward, impertinent, insolent, jackanapes, pert, presumer, presumptuous, sassy, saucy), ορειχάλκινοσ (brassy). (various references)

Hebrew		מתכתי (brassy, metallic, tinny), עשוי פליז, עז פ� ים (impertinent, insolent, shameless), חוצפ� י (impudent, insolent). (various references)

Hungarian		rezes (brassy, copper, coppery), rézből való (brassy, copper), réz-, bronz-, érces (metallic). (various references)

Icelandic		ósvífinn (impertinent, rude). (various references)

Indonesian		kurang ajar (bold, brash, disrespectful, ill-bred). (various references)

Italian		svergognato (impudent, shameless), simile a ottone, sfacciato (barefaced, blatant, bold, cheeky, cool, fresh, impertinent, impudent, insolent, jackanapes, overbold, sassy, saucy), insolente (brash, cheekily, cheeky, defiant, forward, impertinent, insolent, pert, puppyish, rude, sassy, saucily), impudente (barefaced, cool, impudent, jackanapes, overbold, shameless), impertinente (flippant, impertinent, naughty, perky, pert, rude, saucy). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		�"�意気 (audacious, cheeky, conceit, impertinent, saucy), 厚かましい (impudent, shameless). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		なまいき (audacious, cheeky, conceit, impertinent, saucy), あつかましい (impudent, shameless). (various references)

Manx		staayney (cessation, deny, forbear, forbearance, harden, oppose, refrain, self-denial, set against, stiffen), prashey, prashagh (brassy), neufaitagh (brassy, undaunted), meenearagh (audacious, bold, glaring, glaring of injustice, immodest, imprudent, ribald, shameless, unashamed, unblushing). (various references)

Norwegian		frekk (cheeky, impertinent, rude). (various references)

Pig Latin		azenbray.(various references)

Portuguese		tornar descarado, descarado (barefaced, brass, cheeky, cool, impudent, nervy, pert, quean, saucy, shameless, unabashed, unblushing), desavergonhado (brass, graceless, ill-favored, ill-favoured, shameless, unashamed, unblushing), de bronze ou latão (brass), agudo (acerbic, acute, argute, clear-sighted, incisive, keen, out-and-out, penetrating, penetrative, piercing, poignant, pungent, sharp, shrill, smart, treble, trenchant). (various references)

Romanian		necuviincios (disrespectful, disrespectfully, foul, graceless, indecent, indecorous, naughty, obscenely, scabrous, unbecoming, uncomely), deşãnţat (indecent, shameful, slatternly), de bronz (bronze), de alamã (brass, brassy, latten), cu rezonanţã, cinic (barefaced, brazenly, byronic, cynic, cynical, cynically, shameless, shamelessly, unblushingly). (various references)

Russian		наглый (assured, barefaced, bold, brassy, brazenfaced, brazen-faced, flip, immodest, impertinent, impudent, insolent, perky, saucy, snippy, unashamed, unblushing, uppish), медный;беззастенчивый, медный (brassy, copper, cupreous). (various references)

Spanish		de latón (brassy). (various references)

Swedish		skamlös (abandoned, impudent, shameless), fräck (audacious, brash, brassy, cheeky, cool, daring, fresh, impertinent, impudent, indecent, insolent, lippy, nervy, rude, saucy, wicked), av mässing. (various references)

Tagalog		waláng-hiyâ (abandoned, impudent). (various references)

Turkish		pirinçten yapılmış (brass), pirinç (bell metal, brass, rice, yellow metal), madeni (metallic, mineral), arlanmaz (abandoned, impudent). (various references)

Ukrainian		схожий на мідь, мідний (brass, copper), пронизливий (acute, argute, cutting, keen, penetrating, piercing, piping, screaming, searching, shrill, stabbing, thrilling). (various references)

Vietnamese		thời kỳ trung niên (brazen age). (various references)

Welsh		hy (audacious, bold), haerllug (audacious, blatant, importunate, impudent). (various references)

Yucatec		xma' su'tal (abandoned, impudent). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	adtrita, adtriti, adtritis, adtritum, adtritus, aenea, aeneae, aeneam, aeneas, aeneis, aeneos, aeneum, aeneus, aeneus, eneus, enam, eneus, enos, sistris. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Language	Date	Source	Mark Chapter 7, Verse 4
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Kai apo agoraV ean mh baptiswntai ouk esqiousin kai alla polla estin a parelabon kratein baptismouV pothriwn kai xestwn kai calkiwn kai klinwn
Latin	405	Vulgate	Et a foro nisi baptizentur non comedunt et alia multa sunt quae tradita sunt illis servare baptismata calicum et urceorum et aeramentorum et lectorum
Old English	990	West Saxon	& on stræte hi ne ætað. buton hyo geþwegenbeon. & manege oðre synde þeheom ge-sette synde. þt is calice frymþa & ceaca. & apfata & manslage. (sic).
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	And whanne thei turnen ayen fro chepyng, thei eten not, but thei ben waisschen; and many other thingis ben, `that ben taken `to hem to kepe, wasschyngis of cuppis, and of watir vessels, and of vessels of bras, and of beddis.
Renaissance English	1526	Tyndale	And whe they come from the market except they washe they eate not. And many other thinges ther be which they have taken apon them to observe as the wasshinge of cuppes and cruses and of brasen vessels and of tables.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	And when they come from the market, except they wash, they eat not. And many other things there be, which they have received to hold, as the washing of cups, and pots, brasen vessels, and of tables.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	And when they come from the market, except they wash, they eat not. And many other things there are, which they have received to hold, as the washing of cups, and pots, and of brazen vessels, and tables.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	And when they come from the market-place, they take no food till their hands are washed; and a number of other orders there are, which have been handed down to them to keep--washings of cups and pots and brass vessels.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language	Mark Chapter 7, Verse 4
Croatian	Niti s trga što jedu ako prije ne operu. Mnogo toga još ima što zbog predaje drže: pranje èaša, vrèeva i lonaca.
Danish	og når de komme fra Torvet, spise de ikke uden først at tvætte sig; og der er mange andre Ting, som de have vedtaget at holde, Tvætninger af Bægere og Krus og Kobberkar og Bænke,
Dutch	En van de markt komende, eten zij niet, tenzij dat zij eerst gewassen zijn. En vele andere dingen zijn er, die zij aangenomen hebben te houden, als namelijk de wassingen der drinkbekers, en kannen, en koperen vaten, en bedden.
Finnish	ja torilta tultuaan he eivät syö, ennenkuin ovat itseään vedellä vihmoneet; ja paljon muuta on, mitä he ovat ottaneet noudattaakseen, niinkuin maljain ja kiviastiain ja vaskiastiain pesemisiä.
French	et, quand ils reviennent de la place publique, ils ne mangent qu`après s`être purifiés. Ils ont encore beaucoup d`autres observances traditionnelles, comme le lavage des coupes, des cruches et des vases d`airain.
Gaelic	Agus ma thig iad bhon mhargadh, chan ith iad gun ionnlad; `s tha iomadh ni eile ann, a tha air an orduchadh dhaibh a chumail, mar tha nighe chupaichean, is phoitean, is shoitheachan praise.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Apa yang dibeli di pasar tidak akan dimakan, sebelum dicuci terlebih dahulu. Dan banyak peraturan lain dari nenek moyang mereka yang mereka pegang teguh; seperti misalnya peraturan mencuci gelas, mangkuk, dan perkakas-perkakas tembaga.
Italian	e tornando dal mercato non mangiano senza aver fatto le abluzioni, e osservano molte altre cose per tradizione, come lavature di bicchieri, stoviglie e oggetti di rame -
Latvian	Un tie, pârnâkuði no tirgus, neçd, kamçr nav mazgâjuðies; un ir vçl daudz cita, kas tiem uzdots pildît: kâ biíeru, krûþu, vara trauku un guïamvietu mazgâðana.
Maori	E kore ano ratou e kai ina hoki mai i te kainga hokohoko, ki te mea kahore i horoi. He maha hoki era atu mea tuku iho kia puritia e ratou, nga horoinga o anga kapu, o nga pata, o nga mea parahi, o nga nohoanga.
Norwegian	og når de kommer fra torvet, eter de ikke før de har vasket sig, og det er meget annet som de har vedtatt å holde: vaskninger av beger og krus og kobberkar og benker.
Portuguese	e quando voltam do mercado, se não se purificarem, não comem. E muitas outras coisas há que receberam para observar, como a lavagem de copos, de jarros e de vasos de bronze.
Rumanian	Wi cknd se kntorc din piayq, nu mqnkncq deckt dupqce s`au scqldat. Sknt multe alte obiceiuri pe cari au apucat ei sq le yinq, precum: spqlarea paharelor, a ulcioarelor, a cqldqrilor wi a paturilor. -
Spanish	Cuando vuelven del mercado, si no se lavan, no comen. Y hay muchas otras cosas que aceptaron para guardar, como los lavamientos de las copas, de los jarros y de los utensilios de bronce y de los divanes.
Swahili	Tena hawali kitu chochote kutoka sokoni mpaka wamekiosha kwanza.fc Kuna pia desturi nyingine walizopokea kama vile namna ya kuosha vikombe, sufuria na vyombo vya shaba.
Swedish	likasom de icke heller, när de komma från torget, äta något utan att förut hava tvagit sig; många andra stadgar finnas ock, som de av ålder pläga hålla, såsom att skölja bägare och träkannor och kopparskålar.
Uma	Ane nculii' -ra ngkai pomako' -ra hi rala ngata, kana moniu' -ra ulu ntuku' ada kako'ia-ra mpoganga pongkoni'. Pai' wori' wo'o-pi ada to ratarima ngkai totu'a-ra to ratuku' lia, hewa rapa' -na ada mpobohoi' sangkiri', kura pai' rewa to rababehi ngkai ngkala.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "brazen": brazened, brazening, brazenly, brazenness, brazennesses, brazens. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Brazen" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: baraza, barazan, Barbazza, barlen, Barzan, Barzanl, Barzen, Barzini, Barzona, Barzun, bazan, Bazen, Bazlen, blazen, Blazheni, Braben, bragen, braisen, braizen, braken, braven, braza, brazan, brazet, brazew, brazin, brazon, Brazzi, Brazzo, Bresnen, breven, Brezeanu, Brezner, Briseno, Brixen, briza, brufen, Bruzzano, crazen, Drazen, frazen, razen, Roazen. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "brazen" (pronounced brā"zun)
4	-ā" z u n	emblazon, Hazan.
3	-z u n	arisen, artisan, bipartisan, chosen, citizen, cousin, crimson, denizen, dozen, frozen, Hausen, horizon, imprison, Mizen, nonpartisan, partisan, poison, prison, reason, risen, rosin, season, thousand, treason, unfrozen, wizen.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-e-n-r-z"
	-1 letter: braze, zebra.
	-2 letters: bane, bare, barn, bean, bear, brae, bran, bren, earn, nabe, near, raze.
	-3 letters: ane, arb, are, ban, bar, ben, bra, ear, era, ern, nab, nae, neb, ran, reb.
	-4 letters: ab, ae, an, ar, ba, be, en, er, na, ne, re.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-e-n-r-z"
	+1 letter: brazens.
	+2 letters: blazoner, brazened, brazenly, urbanize.
	+3 letters: blazoners, brazening, carbonize, urbanized, urbanizes.
	+4 letters: benzofuran, blazonries, brazenness, carbonized, carbonizes, emblazoner, emblazonry, hebraizing.
	+5 letters: bacterizing, benzofurans, bizarreness, decarbonize, emblazoners, marbleizing, organizable, rebaptizing, suburbanize, verbalizing.
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Expression	Frequency per Day
brazen	20
altar brazen	13
brazen head	12
brazen abbot	7
brazen bull	5
brazen moses serpent	4
alter brazen	4
brazen group	4
the brazen serpent	4
brazen hussy	3
brazen mp3 weep	3
bean brazen	3
brazen estate real	3
brazen hearts	3
altar brazen sermon	3
brazen estate group real	2
brazen film	2
brazen head inn	2
brazen shemale	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Brazen

Definition: Brazen

Brazen

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Synonyms: Brazen

Synonyms within Context: Brazen

Insolence

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Modern Usage: Brazen

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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

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Modern Translation: Brazen

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Matched Bible Translations: Brazen

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Rhyming with "Brazen"

Anagrams: Brazen

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