Definition of Dashing

1. Adjective. Lively and spirited. "A dashing hero"

Exact synonyms: Gallant
Similar to: Spirited

2. Adjective. Marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners. "A jaunty red hat"

Definition of Dashing

1. a. Bold; spirited; showy.

Definition of Dashing

1. Adjective. Spirited, audacious and full of high spirits. ¹

2. Adjective. Chic, fashionable. ¹

3. Verb. (present participle of dash) ¹

4. Noun. The action of the verb to dash. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Dashing

1. dash [v] - See also: dash

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dashing

dashboarding
dashboards
dashed
dasheen
dasheens
dasheki
dashekis
dasher
dashers
dashes
dashi
dashier
dashiest
dashiki
dashikis
dashing (current term)
dashing hopes
dashingly
dashingness
dashis
dashism
dashkovaite
dashpot
dashpots
dasht
dashy
dasing
dasn't

Literary usage of Dashing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Complete Word and Phrase Concordance to the Poems and Songs of Robert by J. B. Reid (1889)
"Down from the rivulets, red with dashing rains, The Ans. to the ... Hut bashing and dashing I kend na how to tell. The Petition of Br. Water. ..."

2. Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative by Richard Henry Dana (1911)
"... and was floating^out of the harbor, when two horsemen came dashing down to the beach at full speed, and tried to find a boat to put off after her; ..."

3. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"dashing means striking—ie showy, ... fellow," a " dashing equipage." To cut a dash is to get one's self looked at and talked about for a showy or striking ..."

4. British Poets of the Nineteenth Century: Poems by Wordsworth, Coleridge by Curtis Hidden Page (1910)
"Then marked they, dashing broad and far. The broken billows of the war. And plumed crests of chieftains brave Floating like foam upon the wave ; But nought ..."

5. Memories of a Musical Career by Clara Kathleen Rogers (1919)
"CHAPTER III dashing YOUNG OFFICERS — ACQUAINTANCES — VANZINI — A FIRST AND LAST BALL — MILAN CATHEDRAL — ARRIGO BOITO — EXPERIENCES WITH SAN GIOVANNI ..."

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