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Rakish vs Ravish - What's the difference?

rakish | ravish |

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)
  • dashingly, carelessly, or sportingly unconventional or stylish; jaunty; characterized by a devil-may-care unconventionality; having a somewhat disreputable quality or appearance.
  • ... 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)
  • (dated) like a rake; dissolute; profligate
  • * Macaulay
  • The arduous task of converting a rakish lover.

    Anagrams

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    ravish

    English

    Verb

    (es)
  • (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 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.}}
  • To rape.
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year=1759 , author=Voltaire , title=Candide , chapter=8 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.}}
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.x:
  • For loe that Guest would beare her forcibly, / And meant to ravish her, that rather had to dy.

    Synonyms

    * abripe * (seize and carry away) kidnap

    Derived terms

    * ravishing * ravishment