Rakish vs Urbane - What's the difference?
rakish | urbane |
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
(of a man) Courteous, polite, refined, and suave.
* 1949 : George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four , p12
As adjectives the difference between rakish and urbane
is that rakish is dashingly, carelessly, or sportingly unconventional or stylish; jaunty; characterized by a devil-may-care unconventionality; having a somewhat disreputable quality or appearance while urbane is courteous, polite, refined, and suave.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
*urbane
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- He felt deeply drawn to him, and not solely because he was intrigued by the contrast between O’Brien’s urbane manner and his prize-fighter’s physique.