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SNAPPY (snappier, snappiest)
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, snappiest Dictionary entry overview: What does snappy mean?
• SNAPPY (adjective)
The adjective SNAPPY has 5 senses:
1. apt to speak irritably
2. smart and fashionable
3. pleasantly cold and invigorating
4. marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners
5. quick and energetic
Familiarity information: SNAPPY used as an adjective is common.
Dictionary entry details
| Declension: comparative and superlative |
Superlative: snappiest
Sense 1
Meaning:
Apt to speak irritably
Synonyms:
snappish; snappy
Context example:
a snappish tone of voice
Similar:
ill-natured (having an irritable and unpleasant disposition)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Smart and fashionable
Synonyms:
snappy; whipping
Context example:
some sharp and whipping lines
Similar:
spirited (displaying animation, vigor, or liveliness)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Pleasantly cold and invigorating
Synonyms:
crisp; frosty; nipping; nippy; snappy
Context example:
snappy weather
Similar:
cold (having a low or inadequate temperature or feeling a sensation of coldness or having been made cold by e.g. ice or refrigeration)
Derivation:
snap (the act of snapping the fingers; movement of a finger from the tip to the base of the thumb on the same hand)
snap (a spell of cold weather)
Sense 4
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)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Quick and energetic
Synonyms:
alert; brisk; lively; merry; rattling; snappy; spanking; zippy
Context example:
a spanking breeze
Similar:
energetic (possessing or exerting or displaying energy)
Context examples
The cat-like springiness in his tread was a little more pronounced than usual, and his eyes were bright and snappy.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Look here, old fellow, said Morris, it is a capital idea to have all ready in case we want to go horsebacking; but don't you think that one of your snappy carriages with its heraldic adornments in a byway of Walworth or Mile End would attract too much attention for our purposes?
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
“If she comes out of there,” he said, “hard and snappy, putting us to windward of the boats, it’s likely there’ll be empty bunks in steerage and fo’c’sle.”
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
A quick, snappy sea was being kicked up by the wind, a condition which prevented fine shooting; and now and again, as we drew closer, we could see the bullets zip-zipping from wave to wave.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
A snappy breeze was blowing from the west with the promise of more wind behind it; and there, to leeward, in the troubled silver of the rising sun, appeared and disappeared a black speck.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
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