broad-brimmed
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Having a broad brim: Describes a hat or other headwear that features a wide brim extending outward from the crown. This brim is significantly wider than average.
Usage Examples
- Adjective:
- She wore a broad-brimmed straw hat to protect herself from the sun.
- The rancher's iconic broad-brimmed hat shielded his face from the rain and dust.
Advanced Usage
- Descriptive Use: The term is almost exclusively used attributively (before a noun) to describe the specific feature of a hat. It is rarely used predicatively (after a linking verb like 'is').
- Attributive: a broad-brimmed sunhat
- Predicative (less common): Her hat is broad-brimmed.
Variants and Related Words
- Broad-brim: (Noun, less common) A hat with a broad brim.
- He tipped his broad-brim in greeting.
- Wide-brimmed: (Adjective) A near-synonym for broad-brimmed.
- a wide-brimmed fedora
Synonyms
- Wide-brimmed: Having a wide brim.
- Floppy-brimmed: Having a soft, wide brim that tends to droop (implies a specific style/material).
Antonyms
- Narrow-brimmed: Having a narrow brim.
- Brimless: Lacking a brim entirely.
Adjective
- (of hats) having a broad brim