Definition

1. 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

1. (of hats) having a broad brim