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| Main Entry: | brazen |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | brash, unashamed |
| Synonyms: | audacious, barefaced, blatant, bold, brassy, cheeky, cocky, defiant, flashy, flip, forward, gritty, gutsy, immodest, impertinent, impudent, indecent, insolent, loud, meretricious, nervy, pert, saucy, shameless, spunky, tawdry, contumelious, hotshot, overbold, smart-alecky, smart-ass, unabashed, unblushing |
| Antonyms: | humble, meek, shamed, shamefaced, shy, timid |
| Main Entry: | barefaced |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | shameless; open |
| Synonyms: | apparent, arrant, audacious, blatant, blunt, bold, brash, brassy, brazen, candid, clear, flagrant, frank, glaring, immodest, impudent, insolent, manifest, naked, obvious, palpable, temerarious, transparent, unconcealed, unabashed |
| Antonyms: | careful, quiet, shamed |
| Main Entry: | bluster |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bully, intimidate |
| Synonyms: | badger, boast, brag, brazen, browbeat, bulldoze*, cow*, crow*, domineer, gloat, hector, rant, rave, ride the high horse, roar, roister, shoot off one's mouth, show off, storm, strut, swagger, swell, talk big, vapor*, vaunt, yap* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | brassy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | vulgar, loud to the senses |
| Synonyms: | arrant, barefaced, blatant, bold, brash, brazen, flashy, flirtatious, forward, garish, gaudy, grating, hard, harsh, impudent, insolent, jarring, jazzy, loudmouthed, noisy, obtrusive, pert, piercing, rude, saucy, shameless, showy, shrill, strident, blaring, overbold, unabashed, unblushing |
| Antonyms: | careful, cautious, circumspect, humble, prudent |
| Main Entry: | cheeky |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | impudent |
| Synonyms: | audacious, bold, brash, brazen, disrespectful, forward, impertinent, insolent, insulting, nervy, saucy, ballsy |
| Main Entry: | flagrant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | flaunting, blatant; without shame |
| Synonyms: | arrant, atrocious, awful, bold, brazen, capital, conspicuous, crying, disgraceful, dreadful, egregious, enormous, flaming, flashy*, glaring, gross*, heinous, immodest, infamous, noticeable, notorious, obvious, open, ostentatious, out-and-out*, outrageous, rank, scandalous, shameful, shameless, shocking, striking, wicked, bare-faced, flagitous, grody, hanging out, stick out like sore thumb, undisguised |
| Notes: | flagrant implies shocking and reprehensible, while blatant is obvious, contrived, and usually obnoxious; flagrant is a stronger term than blatant |
| Antonyms: | concealed, disguised, hidden, mild, moral, restrained, secret |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | flashy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | flamboyant, in poor taste |
| Synonyms: | blatant, brazen, cheap, chintzy, flaunting, florid, garish, gaudy, glaring, glittering, jazzy*, loud, meretricious, ornate, ostentatious, showy, snazzy, sparkling, tacky*, tasteless, tawdry, vulgar, catchpenny, glittery, glitzy, tinsel |
| Antonyms: | plain, simple, subdued, tasteful, unobtrusive, unflamboyant, unflashy, ungaudy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | frank |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | completely honest |
| Synonyms: | aboveboard, apparent, artless, blunt, bold, brazen, candid, direct, downright, easy, familiar, flat-out*, forthright, free, guileless, ingenuous, matter-of-fact, naive, natural, open, outright, outspoken, plain, real, scrupulous, sincere, straight, straightforward, transparent, truthful, unconcealed, uninhibited, unreserved, unrestricted, up front, upright, bare-faced, call a spade a spade, from the hip, heart-to-heart, lay it on the line, like it is, plain-spoken, saying what one thinks, undisguised |
| Antonyms: | devious, dishonest, evasive, insincere, secretive |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | garish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | flashy, tasteless |
| Synonyms: | blatant, brassy, brazen, cheap, chintzy, flaunting, gaudy, glaring, glittering, loud, meretricious, ornate, ostentatious, overdone, overwrought, raffish, showy, tawdry, vulgar, kitschy, screaming, tinsel |
| Antonyms: | discreet, modest, normal, plain, tasteful |
| Main Entry: | gaudy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bright and vulgar |
| Synonyms: | blatant, brazen, brilliant, chichi*, chintzy, coarse, crude, flashy, flaunting, florid, garish, gay, glaring, gross, jazzy, loud, meretricious, obtrusive, ostentatious, pizzazz*, pretentious, raffish, ritzy, showy, snazzy, splashy, tasteless, tawdry, catchpenny, frou-frou, gussied up, kitschy, putting on the ritz, screaming, splendiferous, tinsel |
| Antonyms: | calm, drab, dull, modest, plain, refined, simple, sophisticated |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | immodest |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | shameless |
| Synonyms: | bawdy, bold, brazen, coarse, depraved, forward, indecent, lewd, obscene, risqué, unseemly, revealing, unashamed, unchaste |
| Main Entry: | impertinent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bold, disrespectful |
| Synonyms: | arrogant, brash, brassy*, brazen, discourteous, flip*, forward, fresh, ill-mannered, impolite, impudent, inappropriate, incongruous, inquisitive, insolent, intrusive, meddlesome, meddling, nosy*, off base*, offensive, pert, presumptuous, prying, rude, sassy*, smart, uncalled-for*, uncivil, ungracious, unmannerly, unsuitable, contumelious, disgracious, interfering, lippy, out of line, procacious, smart alecky |
| Antonyms: | kind, mannered, nice, polite, refined, respectful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | impudent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bold, shameless |
| Synonyms: | arrant, audacious, barefaced, blatant, brassy, brazen, bumptious, cheeky*, cocky*, cool*, flip*, forward, fresh, immodest, impertinent, insolent, nervy*, pert, presumptuous, rude, sassy*, saucy*, smart*, wise*, boldfaced, contumelious, off-base, overbold, procacious, smart-alecky, unabashed, unblushing |
| Antonyms: | humble, modest, polite, retiring |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | insolent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bold, disrespectful |
| Synonyms: | abusive, arrogant, barefaced, brassy*, brazen, breezy, contemptuous, dictatorial, discourteous, disdainful, flip*, fresh, imperative, impertinent, impolite, impudent, insubordinate, insulting, magisterial, nervy, offensive, overbearing, peremptory, pert, put down, rude, sassy*, saucy*, smart, uncivil, ungracious, contumelious, off-base, out-of-line, procacious, smart-alecky |
| Antonyms: | cowardly, humble, modest, polite, respectful, servile |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | meretricious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | gaudy, flashy |
| Synonyms: | blatant, bogus, brazen, chintzy, counterfeit, garish, glaring, insincere, loud, misleading, ornate, phony, plastic*, sham, showy, spurious, superficial, tawdry, trashy, put-on, tinsel |
| Antonyms: | genuine, real, unembellished, undecorated |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pert |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | lively, bold |
| Synonyms: | animated, audacious, brash, brazen, breezy, bright, brisk, cheeky*, dapper, daring, dashing, disrespectful, flip*, flippant, forward, fresh, gay, impertinent, impudent, insolent, jaunty, keen, nervy, perky, presumptuous, sassy*, saucy*, smart, spirited, sprightly, vivacious, wise, smart-alecky |
| Antonyms: | dull, humble, lifeless |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sassy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | impudent |
| Synonyms: | arrant, audacious, bold, brassy, brazen, cheeky*, discourteous, disrespectful, flip*, flippant, fresh, insolent, mouthy*, rude, saucy*, wise, overbold, smart-alecky, smart-mouthed |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | saucy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disrespectful |
| Synonyms: | arch, audacious, bold, brash, brazen, cheeky*, combative, flip*, flippant, forward, fresh, impertinent, impudent, insolent, intrusive, meddlesome, nervy, obtrusive, pert, presumptuous, rude, sassy, smart, smug, snippy*, volatile, wise, contumelious, smart-alecky, weisenheiming |
| Antonyms: | kind, polite, respectful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | shameless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | corrupt, indecent |
| Synonyms: | abandoned, arrant, audacious, barefaced, bold, brash, brassy, brazen, cheeky*, depraved, dissolute, flagrant, forward, hardened, high-handed*, immodest, immoral, improper, impudent, incorrigible, insolent, lewd, outrageous, presumptuous, profligate, reprobate, rude, unprincipled, wanton, overbold, unabashed, unashamed, unblushing, unchaste |
| Antonyms: | decent, good, moral |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sporty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | casual; flashy |
| Synonyms: | brazen, flamboyant, flaunting, gaudy, glittering, informal, jazzy*, loud, natty, ornate, showy, snazzy, glittery, glitzy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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