Dashing
['dæʃɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dash
(a.) Bold; spirited; showy.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Rushing, precipitate.[2]. Ostentatious, showy, pretentious.
Editor: Philip
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Adventurous, showy, brave
ANT:Shrinking, dowdy, timid
Editor: Stacy
Examples
- Turning, I saw a dozen black pirates dashing toward us from the melee. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Yes: there was a chaise- and-four, a short distance before them, dashing along at full gallop. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- In a big, dashing hand, Laurie wrote. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- My father slept in the cabin; and I lay on the deck, looking at the stars, and listening to the dashing of the waves. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- No, I must say good evening, said Will, dashing up a passage which led into Lowick Gate, and almost running to get out of Raffles's reach. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- A well-bred servant, in a cocked hat and dashing livery entered my room, with many bows. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- So everybody walks in the street--and where the street is wide enough, carriages are forever dashing along. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Many people did so fancy, and Becky was for a while one of the most dashing ladies of the Countess's salons. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- On the 4th Van Dorn made a dashing attack, hoping, no doubt, to capture Rosecrans before his reinforcements could come up. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The boy paused, and looked back; but there was no time to stay, and, dashing the tears from his large, bright eyes, he was up in a moment. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Henry and Frederick Lynn are very dashing sparks indeed; and Colonel Dent is a fine soldierly man. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Miss Hannah, who was conceited, dashing, pushing, flourished hers consciously and openly. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- A dashing way he had of treating me like a plaything, was more agreeable to me than any behaviour he could have adopted. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The engines would not run evenly, one would stop and another go dashing on at a tremendous speed. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Though, as far as myself is concerned, a dashing spirit has counted for sommat, to be sure! Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Such a dashing young fellow as he is, with his good looks, rank, and accomplishments, would be the very husband for her. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The golden secretary darted through the room like a meteor with a dashing French-woman who carpeted the floor with her pink satin train. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- I wish I could be there without dashing your spirits, he said. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- He is dark, handsome, and dashing, never calls less than once a day, and often twice. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- This dashing young Barnacle, in a word, was likely to become a statesman, and to make a figure. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
Editor: Stacy