Rakish vs Ravish - What's the difference?
rakish | ravish |
dashingly, carelessly, or sportingly unconventional or stylish; jaunty; characterized by a devil-may-care unconventionality; having a somewhat disreputable quality or appearance.
(dated) like a rake; dissolute; profligate
* Macaulay
(obsolete, or, archaic) To seize and carry away by violence; to snatch by force.
To transport with joy or delight; to delight to ecstasy.
* {{quote-book
, year=1873
, author=Jules Verne
, title=Around the World in 80 Days
, chapter=9
To rape.
* {{quote-book
, year=1759
, author=Voltaire
, title=Candide
, chapter=8
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.x:
As an adjective rakish
is dashingly, carelessly, or sportingly unconventional or stylish; jaunty; characterized by a devil-may-care unconventionality; having a somewhat disreputable quality or appearance.As a verb ravish is
(obsolete|or|archaic) to seize and carry away by violence; to snatch by force.rakish
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- ... the rakish Dennis Quaid, a Houston native who is moving to Texas in a couple of years and wants it to become "the new Hollywood." (Houston Chronicle, 6/8/2007)
- The arduous task of converting a rakish lover.
Anagrams
*ravish
English
Verb
(es)citation, passage=Passepartout was ravished to behold this celebrated place, and thought that, with its circular walls and dismantled fort, it looked like an immense coffee-cup and saucer.}}
citation, passage=A tall Bulgarian soldier, six feet high, perceiving that I had fainted away at this sight, attempted to ravish me; the operation brought me to my senses. I cried, I struggled, I bit, I scratched, I would have torn the tall Bulgarian’s eyes out, not knowing that what had happened at my father’s castle was a customary thing.}}
- For loe that Guest would beare her forcibly, / And meant to ravish her, that rather had to dy.