brashly

1. 1.

   in a brash cheeky manner

   “brashly, she asked for a rebate”

   Synonymscheekilynervily

Questions about brashly

What does brashly mean?

brashly means "in a brash cheeky manner".

How many syllables are in brashly?

brashly has 2 syllables and divides as brash-ly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for brashly?

Close synonyms include cheekily, nervily. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is brashly a common word?

brashly is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.