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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Audacious and gallant; spirited.
  2. adj. Marked by showy elegance; splendid: a dashing coat. See Synonyms at fashionable.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Performed with or at a dash; impetuous; spirited: as, a dashing charge.
  2. Showy; brilliant: as, a dashing fellow.
  3. Ostentatious; bold; dashy.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Spirited, audacious and full of high spirits.
  2. adj. Chic, fashionable.
  3. v. present participle of dash.
  4. n. The action of the verb to dash.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Bold; spirited; showy.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. lively and spirited
  2. adj. marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners

Examples

  • “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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  • “Lando Calrissian being dashing is cringe-worthy.”

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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.”

    Clinton touts commander-in-chief credentials

  • “No. The Christmas Eve of a gray industrial city, with a cold wind blowing and steely rain dashing against its unlovely houses.”

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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.”

    Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle

  • “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

  • “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

  • “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

  • “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

  • “The rest of my youth after Warrenton and most of my hard-working middle age could hardly be called dashing.”

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