brazen Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb face with defiance or impudence
    • brazen it out
  2. adjective satellite unrestrained by convention or propriety
    brassy; insolent; bodacious; audacious; bald-faced; barefaced; brazen-faced.
    • an audacious trick to pull
    • a barefaced hypocrite
    • the most bodacious display of tourism this side of Anaheim"- Los Angeles Times
    • bald-faced lies
    • brazen arrogance
    • the modern world with its quick material successes and insolent belief in the boundless possibilities of progress"- Bertrand Russell
  3. adjective made of or resembling brass (as in color or hardness)

WordNet

Bra"zen adjective
Etymology
OE. brasen, AS. bræsen. See Brass.
Definitions
  1. Pertaining to, made of, or resembling, brass.
  2. Sounding harsh and loud, like resounding brass.
  3. Impudent; immodest; shameless; having a front like brass; as, a brazen countenance.
Bra"zen transitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Brazened present participle & verbal noun Brazening
Definitions
  1. To carry through impudently or shamelessly; as, to brazen the matter through.
    Sabina brazened it out before Mrs. Wygram, but inwardly she was resolved to be a good deal more circumspect. W. Black.

Webster 1913