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Cavalier vs Debonair - What's the difference?

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Cavalier is a related term of debonair.


As adjectives the difference between cavalier and debonair

is that cavalier is not caring enough about something important while debonair is (obsolete) gracious, courteous.

As a noun cavalier

is a military man serving on horse.

cavalier

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Not caring enough about something important.
  • The very dignified officials were confused by his cavalier manner.
  • * 2003 , Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything'', ''Black Swan , pg.46:
  • Far from marking the outer edge of the solar system, as those school-room maps so cavalierly imply, Pluto is barely one-fifty-thousandth of the way.
  • High-spirited.
  • Supercilious; haughty; disdainful; curt; brusque.
  • Of or pertaining to the party of King Charles I.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A military man serving on horse.
  • A sprightly, military man; hence, a gallant.
  • One of the court party in the time of King Charles I, as contrasted with a Roundhead or an adherent of Parliament.
  • A work of more than ordinary height, rising from the level ground of a bastion, etc., and overlooking surrounding parts.
  • A well mannered man; a gentleman.
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    debonair

    English

    Alternative forms

    * debonaire

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Gracious, courteous.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.vi:
  • Let be that Ladie debonaire , / Thou recreant knight, and soone thy selfe prepaire / To battell [...].
  • Suave, urbane and sophisticated.
  • (especially of men) Charming, confident and carefully dressed.
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