in-your-face

1. 1.

   blatantly aggressive

   “on-line hard-boiled in-your-face pornography”

   Similaraggressive

Questions about in-your-face

What does in-your-face mean?

in-your-face means "blatantly aggressive".

How many syllables are in in-your-face?

in-your-face has 3 syllables: i-n-your--face. The stress falls on "i".

Is in-your-face a common word?

in-your-face is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.