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 of high 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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  • 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.

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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.

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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.

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