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DANDIFIED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does dandified mean?
• DANDIFIED (adjective)
The adjective DANDIFIED has 1 sense:
1. affecting extreme elegance in dress and manner
Familiarity information: DANDIFIED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Affecting extreme elegance in dress and manner
Synonyms:
Similar:
elegant (refined and tasteful in appearance or behavior or style)
Context examples
Being only 'a glorious human boy', of course he frolicked and flirted, grew dandified, aquatic, sentimental, or gymnastic, as college fashions ordained, hazed and was hazed, talked slang, and more than once came perilously near suspension and expulsion.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
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