Word Meanings - DASHING - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Bold; spirited; showy. The dashing and daring spirit is preferable to the listless. T. Campbell.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DASHING)
- Conflicting
- Adverse
- opposed
- opposing
- dashing
- discordant
- irreconcilable
- contradictory
- Daring
- Adventurous
- bold
- courageous
- venturesome
- dauntless
- foolhardy
- fearless
- brave
- intrepid
- valorous
- Enterprising
- Active
- daring
- adventurous
- speculative
Related words: (words related to DASHING)
- ENTERPRISER
One who undertakes enterprises. Sir J. Hayward. - DARKEN
Etym: 1. To make dark or black; to deprite of light; to obscure; as, a darkened room. They covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened. Ex. x. 15. So spake the Sovran Voice; and clouds began To darken all the hill. Milton. - FOOLHARDY
Daring without judgment; foolishly adventurous and bold. Howell. Syn. -- Rash; venturesome; venturous; precipitate; reckless; headlong; incautious. See Rash. - VALOROUS
Possessing or exhibiting valor; brave; courageous; valiant; intrepid. -- Val"or*ous*ly, adv. - DARREIN
Last; as, darrein continuance, the last continuance. - OPPOSABILITY
The condition or quality of being opposable. In no savage have I ever seen the slightest approach to opposability of the great toe, which is the essential distinguishing feature of apes. A. R. Wallace. - VENTURESOME
Inclined to venture; not loth to run risk or danger; venturous; bold; daring; adventurous; as, a venturesome boy or act. -- Ven"ture*some*ly, adv. -- Ven"ture*some*ness, n. - INTREPIDLY
In an intrepid manner; courageously; resolutely. - DARKNESS
1. The absence of light; blackness; obscurity; gloom. And darkness was upon the face of the deep. Gen. i. 2. 2. A state of privacy; secrecy. What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light. Matt. x. 27. 3. A state of ignorance or - DARING
Boldness; fearlessness; adventurousness; also, a daring act. - DASHER
1. That which dashes or agitates; as, the dasher of a churn. 2. A dashboard or splashboard. 3. One who makes an ostentatious parade. - OPPOSITIONIST
One who belongs to the opposition party. Praed. - ENTERPRISE
1. That which is undertaken; something attempted to be performed; a work projected which involves activity, courage, energy, and the like; a bold, arduous, or hazardous attempt; an undertaking; as, a manly enterprise; a warlike enterprise. Shak. - ADVENTUROUSNESS
The quality or state of being adventurous; daring; venturesomeness. - DARE
To have adequate or sufficient courage for any purpose; to be bold or venturesome; not to be afraid; to venture. I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none. Shak. Why then did not the ministers use their new law Bacause they - OPPOSITIVE
Capable of being put in opposition. Bp. Hall. - BRAVENESS
The quality of state or being brave. - DASH
1. To throw with violence or haste; to cause to strike violently or hastily; -- often used with against. If you dash a stone against a stone in the botton of the water, it maketh a sound. Bacon. 2. To break, as by throwing or by collision; - OPPOSELESS
Not to be effectually opposed; irresistible. "Your great opposeless wills." Shak. - DARKENING
Twilight; gloaming. Wright. - SELF-ACTIVE
Acting of one's self or of itself; acting without depending on other agents. - CHYLIFACTIVE
Producing, or converting into, chyle; having the power to form chyle. - COUNTERACTIVE
Tending to counteract. - SOLIDARE
A small piece of money. Shak. - PANDARISM
See SWIFT - PANDARIZE
To pander. - CEDARN
Of or pertaining to the cedar or its wood. - GENDARMERY
The body of gendarmes. - RETROACTIVE
Fitted or designed to retroact; operating by returned action; affecting what is past; retrospective. Beddoes. Retroactive law or statute , one which operates to make criminal or punishable, or in any way expressly to affect, acts done prior to - DETRACTIVE
1. Tending to detractor draw. 2. Tending to lower in estimation; depreciative.