Antonyms for brashness


Grammar : Noun
Spell : brash
Phonetic Transcription : bræʃ


Definition of brashness

Origin :
  • 1824, of obscure origin, originally American English; perhaps akin to 16c. Scottish brash "attack, assault," or French breche "fragments," especially of ice, from a Germanic source (cf. Old High German brehha "breach," from brehhan "to break"), or to German brechen "to vomit."
  • noun impudence
  • noun temerity
Example sentences :
  • Curiosity had gotten him in, brashness and speed had taken him out.
  • Extract from : « Planet of the Damned » by Harry Harrison
  • She's a woman, fer all her brashness in her callin' herself a man.
  • Extract from : « A Pagan of the Hills » by Charles Neville Buck
  • Springing up, he caught her hand and made to kiss her in the brashness of impulse.
  • Extract from : « The Last Shot » by Frederick Palmer
  • "That is a bargain," he said, with a brashness simply disgraceful in a good business man.
  • Extract from : « The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him » by Paul Leicester Ford

Synonyms for brashness

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