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Dashing vs Bold - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between dashing and bold

is that dashing is spirited, audacious and full of high spirits while bold is courageous, daring.

As verbs the difference between dashing and bold

is that dashing is present participle of lang=en while bold is to make (a font or some text) bold.

As nouns the difference between dashing and bold

is that dashing is the action of the verb to dash while bold is a dwelling; habitation; building.

dashing

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Spirited, audacious and full of high spirits.
  • Chic, fashionable.
  • All heads turned as the dashing young man entered the room.

    Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

  • The action of the verb to dash.
  • Anagrams

    *

    bold

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) bold, from (etyl) bold, blod, bolt, .

    Alternative forms

    *

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A dwelling; habitation; building.
  • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) bold, bald, beald, from (etyl) bald, .

    Adjective

    (boldness) (er)
  • Courageous, daring.
  • *, chapter=22
  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part. Thus outraged, she showed herself to be a bold as well as a furious virago. Next day she found her way to their lodgings and tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head.}}
  • * 2005 , (Plato), Sophist . Translation by Lesley Brown. .
  • It would be extraordinarily bold of me to give it a try after seeing what has happened to you.
  • (of a font) Having thicker strokes than the ordinary form of the typeface.
  • Presumptuous.
  • * 1748 , (David Hume), Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 9.
  • even the boldest and most affirmative philosophy, that has ever attempted to impose its crude dictates and principles on mankind.
    Synonyms
    * (courageous) audacious, brave, courageous, daring, forward * See also

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make (a font or some text) bold.
  • (obsolete) To make bold or daring.
  • (Shakespeare)
  • (obsolete) To become bold.
  • (Webster 1913) ----