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单词 brassy
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brassy1

adjectivebrassiest, brassier ˈbrɑːsiˈbræsi
  • 1Resembling brass in colour.

    the last rays of the sun were brassy and chill
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The flowers, which are brassy yellow, come in July.
    • For about a minute or so, I keep standing by the window, which is suddenly awash in brassy light from the sun falling behind the ridgeline.
    • Her hair was cut boy-short, a strange kind of brassy reddish-gold which made him think of thunderstorms.
    • And I noticed a young girl alone up the back leaning on the bar: late twenties, lots of brassy blonde curly hair, bright blue eyes.
    • There's a glittery, brassy sort of atmosphere.
    • The concert footage, captured in color, is bright and brassy, and even with all the fancy lighting and video backdrops, the transfer never resorts to flaring or bleeding.
    • He squinted up at the sun, which was burning bright and brassy now, and climbing the side of the sky.
    • Iron sulfide nodules typically are heavy, brassy yellow, flattened along bedding planes, and 2-10 cm in diameter.
    • In warm climates, Carolina jessamine is valued for early spring color - its brassy gold trumpets appear anywhere from February to April.
    • And my friend Lesley will go a bundle on the tip to take the brassy tones out of dyed blonde hair by smothering your head in tomato ketchup.
    • She pointed to a young woman with brassy red hair.
    1. 1.1 Sounding like a brass musical instrument; harsh and loud.
      (声音)似铜管乐器的;响而刺耳的
      audience members are tapping their feet to the brassy music of the band
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Admittedly she's not the world's best singer, but her bold and brassy routine had something that once made us love her.
      • Backed by a 40-piece orchestra loaded with bold, brassy horns and lush, lavish strings, you'll certainly pick up on that late '70s sound.
      • A boy and a girl twirl frenetically yet effortlessly around a dance floor to the brassy rhythms of a swing band.
      • Askew as the world often seems these days, indifferent to what were once taken to be common sense and common decency, the brassy tabloid offers daily proof that one isn't crazy - or alone.
      • Some are little lower-case moments; others big, bold and brassy.
      • It's brassy and bold even in its unapologetic presentation of sentimental pap.
      • But you have to know how to use bold, brassy rhythms to make light of serious subjects.
      • The director shows stunning theatrical vision in her creation of a bright, brassy, and jubilantly sassy show that had the audience stamping for more.
      • Both the poem and the painting scream like bold and brassy fire trucks as they herald a new interest in the art of the early 20th-century city.
      • Maybe someone will invite me to a wonderfully cheesy party with a brassy dance band and those silver and gold pointed hats and those wonderful noisemakers that spin and spin and spin, making that horrible racket as they go around.
      • It's a sociable port, with jaunty coconut palms lining its brassy waterfront, an agreeable jumble of architectural styles and a very lived-in sense of its own history.
      • Fat, low, brassy blues, cynical lyric-driven ballads, a minor key waltz on a musical saw, jazz, rock, blues, country - the whole album is a love song to music.
      • Percussion percolates and piano rollicks through a brassy arrangement that celebrates life and the beat.
      • Certainly both the music and these performances have real rhythmic life and a good deal of energy, even if some passages are over-scored and tip over into brassy bombast.
      • From an open storefront, a brassy jukebox was blaring.
      • Celebration and friendship washed over the brassy clutter of drawings, video projections, raw wood structures, handmade coins and other stuff.
      • The collection brings together French underground pop/psych music that was ascendent as the Gallic sun was setting on the more brassy go-go sounds of the mid-60s.
      • The follow up chases hot on its heels with more brassy and in-your-face lyrics of defiance and determination.
      • The music is effective, with brassy themes of shining goodness and bass-heavy themes of scowling evil.
      • Music is loud and brassy at times, nearly inaudible at others.
      Synonyms
      loud, blaring, noisy, thundering, booming, deafening, ear-splitting
      raucous, harsh, dissonant, discordant, cacophonous, jangling, grating, jarring, strident, piercing, shrill, tinny
    2. 1.2 (typically of a woman) tastelessly showy or loud in appearance or manner.
      (人,尤指女人)浮华的,俗艳的;厚颜无耻的
      her brassy, audacious exterior

      她俗艳而放肆的外表。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Phyllis is the bold and brassy landlady who plays her cards very close to her chest but reveals her more sensitive side.
      • She is brassy and bold and uses the rest of the press as her PR machine.
      • The voiceover claims that one of the women ‘has come to finishing school to get rid of her cheap, brassy image’.
      • But as the RADA-trained actress sees her reputation grow, she fears being typecast in roles as brassy northerners.
      • She is brassy, voluptuous, flirtatious, and fun-loving.
      • She is a big, smart, brassy woman who, after three decades in the cesspool of Philadelphia crime, isn't fazed by much.
      • She's bold, brassy, determined to take on the Scottish parliament - and she's virtual.
      • Some say they don't like Barbie because she is too brassy and they are into other things, like computer games.
      • She's brassy, outspoken, occasionally crass, and has a yachtload of money.
      • This particular nest of welfare grubbers is not located in a slum tenement, though it's no less addicted to the public handouts and is absolutely brassy in its demand for more.
      • But this is a much different layout than McBroom's usual bold and brassy efforts.
      • Where Monica was bold and brassy, Amanda was quite and demure.
      • Her role here is just as brassy and showy, although it doesn't feature any singing.
      • Hear it and, at once, you can see her - blonde but not brassy, sexy but not tarty, dignified but funny, haughty but friendly.
      • Krystal was a brassy woman, with blond hair that was wrong and a laugh that didn't quite fit.

Derivatives

  • brassily

  • adverb
    • This is ended by a loud and brassily heroic version of the Fellowship theme as the iconic scene of the nine walking over the mountain plays out, signifying the beginning of the journey.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • If it's in response to something somebody else says, fine, but how does you independently stating, loudly and brassily, that you're not a fan add to the overall happiness level of the world?
      • Still, there's a brassily strident edge of G.I. Joe-ness to the proceedings.
      • As brassily entertaining as its no-holds-barred protagonist, the series' debut season is presented in its entirety with this collection of 11 episodes.
      • Cue some self-realization and brassily independent fulfillment of long-held rock-star fantasies.
  • brassiness

  • noun
    • Less laudable was the mono soundtrack, which has areas of dullness and areas of brassiness.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • She had a flawless peaches-and-cream complexion and ash-blonde hair, which, if occasionally aided by the peroxide bottle, lacked the brassiness of some of her contemporaries'.
      • I noticed pronounced brassiness in some of the musical numbers, and the subwoofer lacked oomph in scenes where I thought it should kick in harder.
      • Or opt for the highlighting kit with a unique squeeze-bottle applicator comb that mimics the salon weave/foil process and a shampooing toner to reduce brassiness.
      • I like its brassiness, its in-your-face quality.

Rhymes

Adivasi, classy, dalasi, Darcy, farcy, Farsi, glassy, grassy

brassy2

noun
  • variant spelling of brassie

brassy1

adjectiveˈbræsiˈbrasē
  • 1Resembling brass in color.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • For about a minute or so, I keep standing by the window, which is suddenly awash in brassy light from the sun falling behind the ridgeline.
    • The concert footage, captured in color, is bright and brassy, and even with all the fancy lighting and video backdrops, the transfer never resorts to flaring or bleeding.
    • And I noticed a young girl alone up the back leaning on the bar: late twenties, lots of brassy blonde curly hair, bright blue eyes.
    • There's a glittery, brassy sort of atmosphere.
    • In warm climates, Carolina jessamine is valued for early spring color - its brassy gold trumpets appear anywhere from February to April.
    • Iron sulfide nodules typically are heavy, brassy yellow, flattened along bedding planes, and 2-10 cm in diameter.
    • The flowers, which are brassy yellow, come in July.
    • Her hair was cut boy-short, a strange kind of brassy reddish-gold which made him think of thunderstorms.
    • And my friend Lesley will go a bundle on the tip to take the brassy tones out of dyed blonde hair by smothering your head in tomato ketchup.
    • He squinted up at the sun, which was burning bright and brassy now, and climbing the side of the sky.
    • She pointed to a young woman with brassy red hair.
    1. 1.1 Sounding like a brass musical instrument; harsh and loud.
      (声音)似铜管乐器的;响而刺耳的
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The collection brings together French underground pop/psych music that was ascendent as the Gallic sun was setting on the more brassy go-go sounds of the mid-60s.
      • Some are little lower-case moments; others big, bold and brassy.
      • Askew as the world often seems these days, indifferent to what were once taken to be common sense and common decency, the brassy tabloid offers daily proof that one isn't crazy - or alone.
      • From an open storefront, a brassy jukebox was blaring.
      • But you have to know how to use bold, brassy rhythms to make light of serious subjects.
      • Maybe someone will invite me to a wonderfully cheesy party with a brassy dance band and those silver and gold pointed hats and those wonderful noisemakers that spin and spin and spin, making that horrible racket as they go around.
      • Certainly both the music and these performances have real rhythmic life and a good deal of energy, even if some passages are over-scored and tip over into brassy bombast.
      • Celebration and friendship washed over the brassy clutter of drawings, video projections, raw wood structures, handmade coins and other stuff.
      • A boy and a girl twirl frenetically yet effortlessly around a dance floor to the brassy rhythms of a swing band.
      • Admittedly she's not the world's best singer, but her bold and brassy routine had something that once made us love her.
      • Percussion percolates and piano rollicks through a brassy arrangement that celebrates life and the beat.
      • The follow up chases hot on its heels with more brassy and in-your-face lyrics of defiance and determination.
      • Fat, low, brassy blues, cynical lyric-driven ballads, a minor key waltz on a musical saw, jazz, rock, blues, country - the whole album is a love song to music.
      • The director shows stunning theatrical vision in her creation of a bright, brassy, and jubilantly sassy show that had the audience stamping for more.
      • It's a sociable port, with jaunty coconut palms lining its brassy waterfront, an agreeable jumble of architectural styles and a very lived-in sense of its own history.
      • Music is loud and brassy at times, nearly inaudible at others.
      • Both the poem and the painting scream like bold and brassy fire trucks as they herald a new interest in the art of the early 20th-century city.
      • It's brassy and bold even in its unapologetic presentation of sentimental pap.
      • The music is effective, with brassy themes of shining goodness and bass-heavy themes of scowling evil.
      • Backed by a 40-piece orchestra loaded with bold, brassy horns and lush, lavish strings, you'll certainly pick up on that late '70s sound.
      Synonyms
      loud, blaring, noisy, thundering, booming, deafening, ear-splitting
    2. 1.2 (typically of a woman) tastelessly showy or loud in appearance or manner.
      (人,尤指女人)浮华的,俗艳的;厚颜无耻的
      her brassy, audacious exterior

      她俗艳而放肆的外表。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • She's bold, brassy, determined to take on the Scottish parliament - and she's virtual.
      • Some say they don't like Barbie because she is too brassy and they are into other things, like computer games.
      • Hear it and, at once, you can see her - blonde but not brassy, sexy but not tarty, dignified but funny, haughty but friendly.
      • Phyllis is the bold and brassy landlady who plays her cards very close to her chest but reveals her more sensitive side.
      • Where Monica was bold and brassy, Amanda was quite and demure.
      • This particular nest of welfare grubbers is not located in a slum tenement, though it's no less addicted to the public handouts and is absolutely brassy in its demand for more.
      • She's brassy, outspoken, occasionally crass, and has a yachtload of money.
      • She is brassy and bold and uses the rest of the press as her PR machine.
      • She is brassy, voluptuous, flirtatious, and fun-loving.
      • Her role here is just as brassy and showy, although it doesn't feature any singing.
      • She is a big, smart, brassy woman who, after three decades in the cesspool of Philadelphia crime, isn't fazed by much.
      • The voiceover claims that one of the women ‘has come to finishing school to get rid of her cheap, brassy image’.
      • But this is a much different layout than McBroom's usual bold and brassy efforts.
      • But as the RADA-trained actress sees her reputation grow, she fears being typecast in roles as brassy northerners.
      • Krystal was a brassy woman, with blond hair that was wrong and a laugh that didn't quite fit.

brassy2

nounˈbræsiˈbrasē
  • variant spelling of brassie
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