2. fortitude, endurance, tenacity, determination, will, will-power; firmness, resoluteness, resolution, indomitableness, indomitability, invincibleness, invincibility, staunchness, stanchness, steadfastness, stalwartness, doughtiness, sturdiness, hardiness, hardihood, bulldog courage; mettle, pluck, pluckiness, spirit, backbone, gumption, blood, heart, nerve, grit, U.S. Inf. sand, Inf. starch, Inf. spunk, SI. guts, SI. moxie.
3. showiness, gaudiness, tawdriness, flamboyance, flashiness, frilliness, SI. jazziness; gaiety, gaudery, trumpery, finery, frippery, frillery, superfluity, SI. flash or flashery.
4. splendor, splendidness, splendiferousness, magnificence, grandeur, grandness, grandiosity, brilliance, gloriousness; elegance, luxuriousness, lavishness, sumptuousness, Inf. swankness or swankiness, Inf. poshness, Inf. plushness, Inf. ritziness. brawl, n. 1. fight, wrangle, affray, fray, rough-and-tumble, tussle, donnybrook, brannigan, Inf. scrap, SI. rhubarb, Scot. sturt; fracas, rumpus, scramble, scuffle, brouhaha, free-for-all, Inf. ruckus; turmoil, tumult, clamor, uproar, commotion, disturbance; argument, quarrel, bicker, altercation, Inf. hassle, Inf. barney; disagreement, squabble, spat, tiff, Brit. Dial, fratch. -v. 2. fight, wrangle, tussle, wrestle, scuffle, lock horns, battle, spar, Inf. row, Inf. scrap; argue, quarrel, bicker, altercate, squabble, spat, tiff, Inf. hassle, brawn, n. 1. muscle, muscles, well-developed muscles, sinew, Inf. beef, muscularity; musculature, muscular development, physique; brawniness, huskiness, heftiness, Inf. beefiness.
2. power, potency, might, force, strength, muscular strength, Literary, puissance; mightiness, powerfulness, forcefulness, brawny, adj. muscular, strapping, muscled, wellmuscled, full-muscled, powerfully-muscled, well-developed, broad-shouldered, powerfully-built, Derog. muscle-bound; stalwart, rugged, hefty, husky, solid, well-knit; able-bodied, able, athletic, strong, wiry, sinewy, thewy; stout, staunch, stanch, firm, sturdy, burly, tough, iron, Inf. hard as rock, Inf. tough as nails; powerful, potent, mighty, all-powerful, herculean, Literary, puissant, bray, n. 1. whinny, neigh, bleat, blat, baa, cry, wail, call; blare, blast, honk, hoot.
-v. 2. whinny, bleat, blat, baa, cry, wail, call;
blare, trumpet, blast, honk, hoot, brazen, adj. 1. brass, brassy, coppery, golden; metallic, metalline.
2. bold, defiant, daring, brash, audacious; loudmouthed, mouthy, outspoken, plainspoken, frank, candid; barefaced, shameless, immodest, indecent, indecorous, unseemly; impudent, insolent, bold-faced, out of line; saucy, Inf. cheeky, Inf. fresh, flippant, impertinent, pert, Archaic, malapert, rude; presumptuous, forward, familiar. breach, n. 1. break, rupture, fracture; cleft, split, cut, rent, rift; gap, opening, hole, gulf, void; chasm, crevice, fissure.
2. violation, transgression, contravention, infraction, infringement, nonobservance; offense, misdeed, misdemeanor, misfeasance, trespass.