dashing
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4.3
- adjective
- /ˈdæʃɪŋ/
:
elegante
- He always dressed in black with cowboy boots and a hat, a dashing and magnetic figure at the center of this crowd.
- dashing and handsome
- more dashing
And he, I thought that was her for a second dashing Asian man.
- And he, I thought that was her for a second dashing Asian man.
- Is a dashing, charismatic, adventurous Bolshevik.
Examples
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No one looks more dashing than me.
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He always dressed in black with cowboy boots and a hat, a dashing and magnetic figure at the center of this crowd.
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Richard Kerry was a bright, bold, and dashing figure: a lone-wolf test pilot and iconoclastic diplomat.
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Dashing, connected, and always impeccably dressed, he squired his movie-star girlfriend Anne Hathaway down red carpets and through high society on two continents.
Synonyms
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2.0
Clothes or rooms that look fashionable and attractive
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3.5
Elegant and fashionable in a simple, modern way
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3.8
Stylish and neat in appearance, often because of clothes or hair
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7.8
Neat and stylish in appearance
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6.2
Neat and stylish in the way a man dresses
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6.3
Lively and cheerful in a confident, stylish way
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8.4
Having a smart, lively, and slightly bold look or manner
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7.7
Fashionable and showy in a way that seems rich
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8.1
Dressed in a neat and stylish way
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8.9
Looks stylish and confident in a cool way
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7.2
Being stylish and looking expensive
Attractive and stylish in a bold, showy way
Looking neat and stylish
Antonyms
How Stylish
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Dashing comes from the word dash, which means 'to move quickly' or 'to act with energy', plus the ending -ing. So a dashing person looks stylish and full of lively confidence, like someone who 'dashes' into a room and grabs attention.