About  |  Kamus SABDA Mobile
Table of Contents -- rakish
POS
HYPHEN
WORDNET DICTIONARY
CIDE DICTIONARY
OXFORD DICTIONARY
THESAURUS
ROGET THESAURUS
Link, Gadget and Share
Copy the code below to your site:
Link
Gadget
Share
 Facebook
 Twitter
Add to your browser

rakish

 : 
Adjective
 : 
rak=ish

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective rakish has 2 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

rakisha. 
     Dissolute; lewd; debauched.  [1913 Webster]
    "The arduous task of converting a rakish lover."  [1913 Webster]
rakisha. 
     Having a saucy appearance indicative of speed and dash.  Ham. Nav. Encyc.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

rakish, adj. of or like a rake (see RAKE(2)); dashing; jaunty.

Derivative
rakishly adv. rakishness n.
rakish, adj. (of a ship) smart and fast-looking, seemingly built for speed and therefore open to suspicion of piracy.

Etymology
RAKE(3), assoc. with RAKE(2)

THESAURUS

rakish

abandoned, brave, bravura, braw, breezy, chic, chichi, dandy, dapper, daring, dashing, debauched, debonair, devil-may-care, dissipated, dissolute, dressy, elegant, exhibitionistic, fashionable, fast, flashing, flashy, flaunting, foppish, free, frilly, frothy, gallant, gay, glittering, jaunty, jazzy, licentious, profligate, raffish, rakehell, rakehellish, rakehelly, showy, smart, snazzy, splashy, splurgy, sporty, spruce, unbridled, wild

ROGET THESAURUS

rakish

Impurity

N impurity, uncleanness, immodesty, grossness, indelicacy, indecency, impudicity, obscenity, ribaldry, Fescennine, smut, bawdry, double entente, equivoque, concupiscence, lust, carnality, flesh, salacity, pruriency, lechery, lasciviency, lubricity, Sadism, sapphism, incontinence, intrigue, faux pas, amour, amourette, gallantry, debauchery, libertinish, libertinage, fornication, liaison, wenching, venery, dissipation, seduction, defloration, defilement, abuse, violation, rape, incest, prostitution, social evil, harlotry, stupration, whoredom, concubinage, cuckoldom, adultery, advoutry, crim, con, free love, seraglio, harem, brothel, bagnio, stew, bawdyhouse, cat house, lupanar, house of ill fame, bordel, bordello, impure, unclean, not to be mentioned to ears polite, immodest, shameless, indecorous, indelicate, indecent, Fescennine, loose, risque, coarse, gross, broad, free, equivocal, smutty, fulsome, ribald, obscene, bawdy, pornographic, concupiscent, prurient, lickerish, rampant, lustful, carnal, carnal-minded, lewd, lascivious, lecherous, libidinous, erotic, ruttish, salacious, Paphian, voluptuous, goatish, must, musty, unchaste, light, wanton, licentious, debauched, dissolute, of loose character, of easy virtue, frail, gay, riggish, incontinent, meretricious, rakish, gallant, dissipated, no better than she should be, on the town, on the streets, on the pave, on the loose, adulterous, incestuous, bestial.

Intemperance

N intemperance, sensuality, animalism, carnality, tragalism, pleasure, effeminacy, silkiness, luxury, luxuriousness, lap of pleasure, lap of luxury, free living, indulgence, high living, wild living, inabstinence, self- indulgence, voluptuousness, epicurism, epicureanism, sybaritism, drug habit, dissipation, licentiousness, debauchery, crapulence, revels, revelry, debauch, carousal, jollification, drinking bout, wassail, saturnalia, orgies, excess, too much, Circean cup, bhang, hashish, marijuana, pot, hemp, grass, opium, cocaine, morphine, heroin, LSD, lysergic acid diethylamide, phencyclidine, angel dust, PCP, barbiturates, amphetamines, speed, intemperate, inabstinent, sensual, self-indulgent, voluptuous, luxurious, licentious, wild, dissolute, rakish, fast, debauched, brutish, crapulous, swinish, piggish, Paphian, Epicurean, Sybaritical, bred in the lap of luxury, nursed in the lap of luxury, indulged, pampered, full-fed, high-fed, being full of supper and distempering draughts.

copyright © 2012 Yayasan Lembaga SABDA (YLSA) | To report a problem/suggestion