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say it: BRAS-ee
brassy is an adjective meaning "resembling the sound of a brass instrument". It carries 3 recorded senses.
unrestrained by convention or propriety
“an audacious trick to pull”
“a barefaced hypocrite”
“the most bodacious display of tourism this side of Anaheim”
“bald-faced lies”
“brazen arrogance”
“the modern world with its quick material successes and insolent belief in the boundless possibilities of progress”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for brassy come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.