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say it: BRAY-zuhn
brazen is an adjective and verb meaning "unrestrained by convention or propriety". It is pronounced /ˈbɹeɪzən/ — BRAY-zuhn. 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”
made of or resembling brass (as in color or hardness)
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 brazen 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.