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dashing

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dash·ing  (dshng)
adj.
1. Audacious and gallant; spirited.
2. Marked by showy elegance; splendid: a dashing coat. See Synonyms at fashionable.

dashing·ly adv.

dashing [ˈdæʃɪŋ]
adj
1. spirited; lively a dashing young man
2. stylish; showy a dashing hat
dashingly  adv
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.dashing - lively and spirited; "a dashing hero"
spirited - displaying animation, vigor, or liveliness
2.dashing - marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners; "a dapper young man"; "a jaunty red hat"
fashionable, stylish - being or in accordance with current social fashions; "fashionable clothing"; "the fashionable side of town"; "a fashionable cafe"

dashing
adjective
1. (Old-fashioned) stylish, smart, elegant, dazzling, flamboyant, sporty, swish (informal, chiefly Brit.), urbane, jaunty, dapper, showy He looked very dashing in a designer jacket of soft black leather.
2. bold, spirited, daring, exuberant, gallant, plucky, swashbuckling, debonair the founding father of the dashing air squadron
bold boring, dull, dreary, lacklustre, uninteresting, stolid, unexciting
Translations
dashing [ˈdæʃɪŋ] ADJ [man] → gallardo, apuesto
dashing [ˈdæʃɪŋ] adj [person] → fringant(e)
dashing (dated)
adj
(= showy, stylish) personschneidig, flott; moustache, clothesschneidig; to cut a dashing figureflott or schneidig aussehen
(= spirited) persontemperamentvoll; (= dynamic)dynamisch; actionunerschrocken; a dashing young officerein zackiger junger Offizier
dashing [ˈdæʃɪŋ] adjbrillante, affascinante
dashing [ˈdæʃɪŋ] adjbrillante, affascinante


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" "I will teach you to fly then," said the Eagle; and taking her up in his talons he carried her almost to the clouds suddenly he let her go, and she fell on a lofty mountain, dashing her shell to pieces.
"I am known," said the Object, dashing itself again at the wall, "as the Consciousness of Duty Well Performed.
But her mother heard, and Joan's simple vanity, having been denied the hope of a dashing marriage, fed itself as well as it could upon the sensation of a dashing flirtation.
 
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