brashness

Other forms of brashness

plural

brashnesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about brashness

What does brashness mean?

brashness means "tasteless showiness". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in brashness?

brashness has 2 syllables: brash-ness. The stress falls on "brash". In IPA it is /ˈbɹæʃnəs/.

What is another word for brashness?

Close synonyms include flashiness, garishness, gaudiness, loudness, meretriciousness. 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 brashness a common word?

brashness 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.