Breezy vs Debonair - What's the difference?
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with a breeze blowing, with a lively wind, pleasantly windy
(figuratively) with a cheerful, casual, lively and light-hearted manner
* July 18 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Rises [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-dark-knight-rises-review-batman,82624/]
*:Though Bane’s sing-song voice gives his pronouncements a funny lilt, he doesn’t have any of the Joker’s deranged wit, and Nolan isn’t interested in undercutting his seriousness for the sake of a breezier entertainment.
(obsolete) Gracious, courteous.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.vi:
Suave, urbane and sophisticated.
(especially of men) Charming, confident and carefully dressed.
Breezy is a related term of debonair.
As adjectives the difference between breezy and debonair
is that breezy is with a breeze blowing, with a lively wind, pleasantly windy while debonair is (obsolete) gracious, courteous.breezy
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Adjective
(er)debonair
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Alternative forms
* debonaireAdjective
(en adjective)- Let be that Ladie debonaire , / Thou recreant knight, and soone thy selfe prepaire / To battell [...].