adj
Meaning 1
Undisguisedly offensive and bold; crude.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: brazen, coarse
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
barefaced
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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UK: /ˈbeə(ɹ)feɪst/
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adj
Meaning 2
Open, undisguised.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: bald-faced, boldfaced
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 3
Unbearded (not having a beard or other facial hair).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: clean-shaven, smooth-shaven
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 4
Unmasked (not wearing a mask) or not wearing a face covering.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: bareface
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 5
Not wearing makeup on the face.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 6
unrestrained by convention or propriety- Los Angeles Times- Bertrand Russell
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- 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
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: audacious, bodacious, bald-faced, brassy, brazen, brazen-faced, insolent
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 7
with no effort to conceal
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a barefaced lie
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: bald
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Perhaps an alteration of barefast (compare shamefast); or from bare + faced. Compare typologically cheeky; Italian sfacciato (< Latin ex- + faciēs); French effronté, Italian sfrontato (< Latin ex- + frōns), Polish czelny (< czoło).
Across languages
Translations
10 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: безочлив (bezočliv) — shameless
- Finnish: julkea — shameless
- Finnish: röyhkeä — shameless
- Japanese: 白々しい (shirajirashii) — shameless
- Plautdietsch: onveschämt — shameless
- Polish: bezczelny — shameless
- Portuguese: descarado — shameless
- Spanish: descarado — shameless
- Spanish: caradura — shameless
- Spanish: desvergonzado — shameless