Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Audacious and gallant; spirited.
- adjective Marked by showy elegance; splendid.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Performed with or at a dash; impetuous; spirited: as, a dashing charge.
- Showy; brilliant: as, a dashing fellow.
- Ostentatious; bold; dashy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Bold; spirited; showy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Spirited ,audacious and full ofhigh spirits . - adjective
Chic ,fashionable . - verb Present participle of
dash . - noun The action of the verb to
dash .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective lively and spirited
- adjective marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners
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Examples
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"Lando Calrissian being dashing is cringe-worthy."
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And a number of men in dashing anoraks have arrived from the Department of Hard Sums at the University of Rutland.
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She's also used her link to the WhiteHouse as proof she is better equipped to handle our foreign policy, but she makes up fictious accounts of dashing from a plane ovesees under sniper fire.
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No. The Christmas Eve of a gray industrial city, with a cold wind blowing and steely rain dashing against its unlovely houses.
Christmas Meeting 1943
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Certainly I never yet betook myself to thinking instead of singing, that I did not end in dashing wildly against the wires of my cage, with sure loss of feathers and at the peril of limb and life.
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All around was darkened by the descending water; and the accumulating floods, dashing from the projecting craigs above, swelled the burn in his path to a roaring river.
The Scottish Chiefs 1875
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Then he wrote of the doctor and Margaret, whom he described as a dashing, brilliant girl, the veriest tease and madcap in the world, and the exact opposite of Maddy.
Aikenside Mary Jane Holmes 1866
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Carroll said she bonded over the phone with her future husband, a military man she refers to as "dashing," and decided she'd marry him before they even met.
The Seattle Times 2012
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Carroll said she bonded over the phone with her future husband, a military man she refers to as "dashing," and decided she'd marry him before they even met.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2012
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Dr. Solomon accompanies Robert Langdon, the rare symbologist who warrants the word dashing as both adjective and verb, through much of this novel, his third rip-snorting adventure. ...
Fiction 2009
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