Rakish

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Nautical Having a trim, streamlined appearance: "We were schooner-rigged and rakish, with a long and lissome hull” ( John Masefield).
  • adj. Dashingly or sportingly stylish; jaunty.
  • adj. Of the character of a rake; dissolute.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. dashingly, carelessly, or sportingly unconventional or stylish; jaunty; characterized by a devil-may-care unconventionality; having a somewhat disreputable quality or appearance.
  • adj. like a rake; dissolute; profligate
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Dissolute; lewd; debauched.
  • adj. Having a saucy appearance indicative of speed and dash.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Nautical, having an unusual amount of rake or inclination of the masts, as a vessel. The piratical craft of former times were distinguished for their rakish build.
  • Resembling or given to the practices of a rake; given to a dissolute life; lewd; debauched.
  • Jaunty.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. marked by a carefree unconventionality or disreputableness
  • adj. marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners
  • Equivalent
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    dissolute    lewd    debauched    dissipate   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    jaunty    sheepish    coquettish    cocky    raffish    saucy    flirtatious    lecherous    quizzical    salacious