brattish

Questions about brattish

What does brattish mean?

brattish means "(used of an ill-mannered child) impolitely unruly".

How many syllables are in brattish?

brattish has 2 syllables and divides as brat-tish 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 brattish?

Close synonyms include bratty. 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 brattish a common word?

brattish 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for brattish come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.