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braw
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective braw has 1 sense
- braw(s = adj.all) brave, gay - brightly colored and showy; "girls decked out in brave new dresses"; "brave banners flying"; "`braw' is a Scottish word"; "a dress a bit too gay for her years"; "birds with gay plumage"
CIDE DICTIONARY
- Well-dressed; handsome; smart; brave; -- used of persons or their clothing, etc.; as, a braw lad. Burns. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- Good; fine. Sir W. Scott. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
THESAURUS
braw
Junoesque, advantageous, agreeable, amply endowed, auspicious, becoming, beneficial, benevolent, bon, bonny, brave, bravura, bueno, built, built for comfort, buxom, callipygian, callipygous, capital, chic, chichi, classy, clothes-conscious, cogent, comely, commendable, cosmopolitan, curvaceous, curvy, dapper, daring, dashing, dressed to advantage, dressed to kill, dressy, elegant, estimable, excellent, exhibitionistic, expedient, exquisite, fair, famous, favorable, fine, flashing, flashy, flaunting, frilly, frothy, gallant, gay, genteel, glittering, goddess-like, good, good-looking, goodly, grand, healthy, helpful, jaunty, jazzy, kind, laudable, likely, lovely to behold, natty, neat, nice, nifty, nobby, noble, personable, pleasant, pleasing, pneumatic, posh, presentable, profitable, rakish, recherche, regal, ritzy, royal, shapely, sharp, showy, sightly, skillful, sleek, slender, smart, smug, snazzy, soigne, soignee, sophisticated, sound, spiffy, splashy, splendid, splurgy, sporty, spruce, stacked, statuesque, style-conscious, swank, swanky, swell, tricksy, trig, trim, useful, valid, very good, virtuous, well-built, well-dressed, well-favored, well-formed, well-groomed, well-made, well-proportioned, well-shaped, well-stacked
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