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Dashing vs Colourful - What's the difference?

dashing | colourful | Related terms |

Dashing is a related term of colourful.


As adjectives the difference between dashing and colourful

is that dashing is spirited, audacious and full of high spirits while colourful is .

As a verb dashing

is .

As a noun dashing

is the action of the verb to dash.

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

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    colourful

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • * 1895 , The Annual of the British School at Athens
    • It was a colourful vase with red and white hoops on the lid, and red bands above and below the main frieze. These bands also carry a metope pattern in white of triple lines and blobs, which can just be distinguished on the photographs.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=June 9 , author=Owen Phillips , title=Euro 2012: Netherlands 0-1 Denmark , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=And Netherlands, backed by a typically noisy and colourful travelling support, started the second period in blistering fashion and could have had four goals within 10 minutes}}
  • * 1895 , H. Walter Staner and Henry Sturmey, The Autocar
    • One of the most colourful' people in motor racing, he writes in a '''colourful manner .
  • * 2002 , news.bbc.co.uk
    • Hussain celebrated reaching his ton with a gesture towards the media centre, pointing to the number three on the back of his shirt and offering some colourful language.