different between dashing vs debonair

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?dæ???(?)/
• Rhymes: -æ???

Etymology 1

From Middle English daschande, equivalent to dash +? -ing.

Adjective

dashing (comparative more dashing, superlative most dashing)

1. Spirited, audacious and full of high spirits.
2. Chic, fashionable.

   All heads turned as the dashing young man entered the room.

Derived terms

• dashingly

Translations

Verb

dashing

1. present participle of dash

Etymology 2

From Middle English dasshyng, dasshynge, equivalent to dash +? -ing.

Noun

dashing (countable and uncountable, plural dashings)

1. The action of the verb to dash.

Anagrams

• shading

English

Alternative forms

• debonaire, debonnaire

Etymology

Old French debonaire, from the phrase de bon aire "of good stock, noble".

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d?b??ne?(?)/
• (US) enPR: d?b-?-n?r', IPA^(key): /d?b??n??/

Adjective

debonair (comparative more debonair, superlative most debonair)

1. (obsolete) Gracious, courteous.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vi:

     Let be that Ladie debonaire, / Thou recreant knight, and soone thy selfe prepaire / To battell [...].

2. Suave, urbane and sophisticated.
3. (especially of men) Charming, confident, and carefully dressed.

Translations

Noun

debonair

1. (obsolete) Debonaire behaviour; graciousness.
   • 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, Letter 31:

     But yet, shall my vanity extend only to personals, such as the gracefulness of dress, my debonnaire, and my assurance—Self-taught, self-acquired, these!

Anagrams

• diborane