Meanings
dashing1
comparative more dashing · superlative most dashing
- Spirited, audacious and full of high spirits.
a dashing young officer
- Chic, fashionable.
That's a rather dashing outfit, even if I do say so.
1 more example
All heads turned as the dashing young man entered the room.
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of dash
dashing2
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivemarked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
dashing · adjective, verb
- Middle Englishdaschande
- Englishdashing
From Middle English daschande, equivalent to dash + -ing.
More words from Middle English
Full word history & related roots →dashing · noun
- Middle Englishdasshyng
- Englishdashing
From Middle English dasshyng, dasshynge, equivalent to dash + -ing.
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Full word history & related roots →Translations
Arabic مُتَحَمِّس, وَسِيم
- مُتَحَمِّس (mutaḥammis)spirited, audacious and full of high spirits
- وَسِيم (wasīm)chic, fashionable
Bulgarian жив, енергичен
- жив (živ)spirited, audacious and full of high spirits
- енергичен (energičen)spirited, audacious and full of high spirits
- елегантен (eleganten)chic, fashionable
Chinese Cantonese 英挺
- 英挺 (jing¹ ting⁵)spirited, audacious and full of high spirits
Chinese Mandarin 英挺
- 英挺 (yīngtǐng)spirited, audacious and full of high spirits
Danish flot, elegant
- flotspirited, audacious and full of high spirits
- elegantchic, fashionable
French fringant
- fringantspirited, audacious and full of high spirits
German schneidig
- schneidigspirited, audacious and full of high spirits
Hebrew נִמְרָץ
- נִמְרָץspirited, audacious and full of high spirits
Icelandic föngulegur
- föngulegurspirited, audacious and full of high spirits
Irish galánta, slachtmhar
- galántachic, fashionable
- slachtmharchic, fashionable
- innealtachic, fashionable
- dóighiúilchic, fashionable
Italian focoso
- focosospirited, audacious and full of high spirits
Norwegian Bokmål feiende flott
- feiende flottspirited, audacious and full of high spirits
Russian энергичный
- энергичный (energičnyj)spirited, audacious and full of high spirits
Spanish enérgico, apuesto
- enérgicospirited, audacious and full of high spirits
- apuestochic, fashionable
- guapochic, fashionable
- galantechic, fashionable
- pinturerochic, fashionable
Swedish hurtig, käck
- hurtigspirited, audacious and full of high spirits
- käckspirited, audacious and full of high spirits
- stiligchic, fashionable
- elegantchic, fashionable
- tjusigchic, fashionable
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with dashing
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Cite this entry
dashing. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dashing
“dashing.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dashing. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “dashing,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dashing.
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