DASHING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dashing mean? 

• DASHING (adjective)
  The adjective DASHING has 2 senses:

1. lively and spirited

2. marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners

  Familiarity information: DASHING used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DASHING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Lively and spirited

Synonyms:

dashing; gallant

Context example:

a dashing hero

Similar:

spirited (displaying animation, vigor, or liveliness)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners

Synonyms:

dapper; dashing; jaunty; natty; raffish; rakish; snappy; spiffy; spruce

Context example:

a jaunty red hat

Similar:

fashionable; stylish (being or in accordance with current social fashions)

 Context examples 

The wind was freshening rapidly, the Ghost heeling over more and more, and by the time the state-room was ready she was dashing through the water at a lively clip.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

He read the letter, skimming it line by line, dashing through the editor's praise of his story to the meat of the letter, the statement why the check had not been sent.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

With the dawn we saw the body of Szgany before us dashing away from the river with their leiter-wagon.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Dashing at top speed around a tepee, he ran full tilt into Kiche lying at the end of her stick.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The little patches of snow which yet lingered on the northern sides of the mountains, the lakes, and the dashing of the rocky streams were all familiar and dear sights to me.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Gloomy defiles or barrancas intersected this wild country with mountain torrents dashing and foaming between their rugged sides.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“It’s all in your lap, Mary,” said he, dashing his own hand across his eyes.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was out on the lawn, in through the window, round the room, and up into the bedroom, for all the world like a dashing foxhound drawing a cover.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Has only one male visitor, but a good deal of him. He is dark, handsome, and dashing, never calls less than once a day, and often twice.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In a big, dashing hand, Laurie wrote...

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)