Word Meanings - JAUNTY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Airy; showy; finical; hence, characterized by an affected or fantastical manner.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of JAUNTY)

• Jauty
• or Jaunty
• Flighty
• airy
• fantastic
• showy
• flaunting
• Spruce
• Neat
• finical
• trim
• smug
• tidy
• smart
• foppish
• dandified
• jaunty

Related words: (words related to JAUNTY)

• FANTASTIC
  1. Existing only in imagination; fanciful; imaginary; not real; chimerical. 2. Having the nature of a phantom; unreal. Shak. 3. Indulging the vagaries of imagination; whimsical; full of absurd fancies; capricious; as, fantastic minds; a fantastic
• SMARTWEED
  An acrid plant of the genus Polygonum , which produces smarting if applied where the skin is tender.
• FANTASTICALITY
  Fantastically.
• FANTASTICLY
  Fantastically.
• FLAUNTINGLY
  In a flaunting way.
• FANTASTICISM
  The quality of being fantastical; fancifulness; whimsicality. Ruskin.
• FLAUNT
  To throw or spread out; to flutter; to move ostentatiously; as, a flaunting show. You flaunt about the streets in your new gilt chariot. Arbuthnot. One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade. Pope.
• FLIGHTY
  1. Fleeting; swift; transient. The flighty purpose never is o'ertook, Unless the deed go with it. Shak. 2. Indulging in flights, or wild and unrestrained sallies, of imagination, humor, caprice, etc.; given to disorder Proofs of my flighty and
• FANTASTICAL
  Fanciful; unreal; whimsical; capricious; fantastic.
• DANDIFIED
  Made up like a dandy; having the dress or manners of a dandy; buckish.
• FANTASTICNESS
  Fantasticalness.
• FANTASTICO
  A fantastic. Shak.
• SPRUCE
  Any coniferous tree of the genus Picea, as the Norway spruce , and the white and black spruces of America (P. alba and P. nigra), besides several others in the far Northwest. See Picea. 2. The wood or timber of the spruce tree. 3. Prussia leather;
• JAUNTY
  Airy; showy; finical; hence, characterized by an affected or fantastical manner.
• SMARTLY
  In a smart manner.
• SMARTNESS
  The quality or state of being smart.
• FOPPISH
  Foplike; characteristic of a top in dress or manners; making an ostentatious display of gay clothing; affected in manners. Syn. -- Finical; spruce; dandyish. See Finical. -- Fop"pish*ly, adv. -- Fop"pish*ness, n.
• FANTASTICALLY
  In a fantastic manner. the letter A, in scarlet, fantastically embroidered with gold thread, upon her bosom. Hawthorne.
• SMART
  schmerzen, OHG. smerzan, Dan. smerte, SW. smärta, D. smart, smert, a pain, G. schmerz, Ohg. smerzo, and probably to L. mordere to bite; 1. To feel a lively, pungent local pain; -- said of some part of the body as the seat of irritation; as, my
• SMARTLE
  To waste away.
• SUPERFINICAL
  Extremely finical.
• NOSESMART
  A kind of cress, a pungent cruciferous plant, including several species of the genus Nasturtium.