| 单词 | rakish |
| 释义 | rakish (once / 7505 pages) 1adj 2adj Ladies, the rakish fellow you met last night with the suave dance moves, smoothly rehearsed lines, and your number listed as “Goddess #14” in his phone is fine for a flirt, but probably isn’t meet-the-parents material. Used as an adjective to describe a dashing ladies’ man or a streamlined ship, rakish comes from the fusing of rake + -ish. Don Juan, the famous Spanish nobleman immortalized in 17th century Spanish tales, is the epitome of rakish: stylishly handsome and prone to saucy, fast behavior. Synonyms include charming, flashy, and immoral. WORD FAMILYrakish: rakishly, rakishness+/rake: raked, rakes, raking, rakish USAGE EXAMPLESA teaser photo of the car shows a more rakish, sportier look, something the Camry has lacked for years. Seattle Times(Dec 01, 2016) Searching for anonymous sex in Bulgaria, a young American strikes up a fraught friendship with a rakish drifter. Washington Post(Nov 17, 2016) So funny, so rakish in the desert sunset, so quietly aware that he was beginning the twilight of his own life. Los Angeles Times(Nov 10, 2016) 1 adj marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners 2Syn dapper, dashing, jaunty, natty, raffish, snappy, spiffy, spruce fashionable, stylish being or in accordance with current social fashions adj marked by a carefree unconventionality or disreputableness Syn devil-may-care, raffish unconventional not conventional or conformist |
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