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Sentimental vs Brash - What's the difference?

sentimental | brash |

As adjectives the difference between sentimental and brash

is that sentimental is characterized by sentiment, sentimentality or excess emotion while brash is impetuous or rash.

As a noun brash is

leaf litter of small leaves and little twigs as found under a hedge.

sentimental

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • characterized by sentiment, sentimentality or excess emotion
  • derived from emotion rather than reason; of or caused by sentiment
  • romantic
  • Derived terms

    * sentimentalism * sentimentality * sentimentally

    Quotations

    * 1885 : , *: Are you in sentimental mood? *: I'll sigh with you. * 1944 : , *: Gonna take a Sentimental Journey, *: Gonna set my heart at ease. *: Gonna make a Sentimental Journey, *: to renew old memories.

    Anagrams

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    brash

    English

    Etymology 1

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • impetuous or rash
  • (Grose)
  • insensitive or tactless
  • impudent or shameless
  • Noun

  • Leaf litter of small leaves and little twigs as found under a hedge.
  • A rash or eruption; a sudden or transient fit of sickness.
  • (geology) Broken and angular rock fragments underlying alluvial deposits.
  • (Lyell)
  • Broken fragments of ice.
  • (Kane)
    Derived terms
    * water brash * weaning brash

    Etymology 2

    Compare Amer. (bresk), (brusk), fragile, brittle.

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • (US, colloquial, dated) brittle, as wood or vegetables
  • (Bartlett)
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