Definition of Dashing

Adjective: dashing  dash-ing

  1. Lively and spirited
    "a dashing hero";
    - gallant
     
  2. Marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners
    "a dashing young man";
    - dapper, jaunty, natty, raffish, rakish, spiffy, snappy, spruce, pert
Verb: dash  dash
  1. Run or move very quickly or hastily
    "She dashed into the yard";
    - dart, scoot, scud, flash, shoot, whip
     
  2. Break into pieces, as by striking or knocking over
    "dash a plate";
    - smash
     
  3. Hurl or thrust violently
    "Waves were dashing against the rock"; "He dashed the plate against the wall";
    - crash
     
  4. Destroy or break
    "dashed ambitions and hopes"
     
  5. Cause to lose courage
    "dashed by the refusal";
    - daunt, scare off, pall, frighten off, scare away, frighten away, scare
     
  6. Add an enlivening or altering element to
    "blue paint dashed with white"

See also:
dashikis
dashingly

Anagrams containing the word dashing

dhgisna gdashin ngdashi ingdash hingdas shingda ashingd