Debonair

Definition: Debonair

Debonair

Adjective

1. Having a sophisticated charm; "a debonair gentleman".

2. Having a cheerful, lively, and self-confident air; "looking chipper, like a man...diverted by his own wit"- Frances G. Patton; "life that is gay, brisk, and debonair"- H.M.Reynolds; "walked with a jaunty step"; "a jaunty optimist".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "debonair" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Synonyms: Debonair

Cheerfulness

Adjective: cheerful; happy; cheery, cheerly; of good cheer, smiling; blithe; in spirits, in good spirits; breezy, bully, chipper; in high spirits, in high feather; happy as the day is long, happy as a king; gay as a lark; allegro; debonair; light, lightsome, light hearted; buoyant, debonnaire, bright, free and easy, airy; janty, jaunty, canty; hedonic; riant; sprightly, sprightful; spry; spirited, spiritful; lively, animated, vivacious; brisk as a bee; sparkling, sportive; full of play, full of spirit; all alive.

Crosswords: Debonair

Debonair lullabies in melodies revealed (When Smokey Sings; performing artist: ABC)

The Debonair Humorist (1928)

Debonair Dancers (1986)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Colvin's clinic : Bonanza, Debonair, Baron maintenance simplified (reference)

• Darkside of Debonair (reference)

• Debonair Jack : a biography of Sir John Longstaff, 1861-1941 (reference)

• The debonair bachelor : a guide to love and laughter (reference)

• The Debonair Duke (Signet Regency Romance) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Debonair V.1 Great Southern Jam [IMPORT] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Albanian

shpirtmirë (gracious, humane, kindhearted, soft-hearted, tender-hearted), optimist (hopeful, optimist, optimistic, sanguine), i dashur (affable, affected, affectionate, amiable, baby, beloved, caring, darling, dear, fond, friendly, genial, gentle, good, good natured, kind, kindly, love, pleasant, precious, sweetheart, sweetie, Sweeting, sweety, Truelove, Valentine, warm), gazmor (cheerful, cheery, convivial, easygoing, exhilarated, gay, genial, gladsome, gleeful, gleesome, hilarious, jaunty, jocular, jocund, jollier, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, light hearted, lively, merry, mirthful, perky, riant, set up, zippy), babaxhan (good natured, good-natured man). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مبتهج (alacrity, blithe, breezy, bright, buoyant, carefree, cheerful, cheery, delighted, delightful, elate, elated, exultant, gay, glad, gleeful, happy, high-spirited, jolly, joyful, joyous, jubilant, mellow, merry, mirthful, overjoyed, palmy, rejoicing, upbeat), ‏ذو كياسة (delicate). (various references)

Bulgarian 

весел (airy, blithe, blithesome, boisterous, bright, buoyant, canty, cheery, chirp, chirpy, colorful, colourful, coltish, convivial, daft, exhilarated, festal, gamesome, gay, genial, gladsome, gleeful, gleesome, good humoured, good-humored, high, humorous, jaunty, jocular, jocund, joky, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, light, light hearted, lightsome, lively, mellow, merry, mirthful, peppy, perky, rackety, roistering, rollicking, rorty, rosy, saucy, slaphappy, sparkish, sportive, sporty, sprightly, swinging, upbeat, winsome), жизнерадостен (cheery, elastic, genial, high-spirited, jaunty, sanguine), елегантен (classy, dashing, doggy, dressy, elegant, feat, fine, genteel, graceful, jimp, mod, nifty, plush, plushy, posh, rakish, saucy, sharp, silk stocking, smart, snappy, stylish, swell, swish, tasty), любезен (accommodating, affable, agreeable, amiable, bland, complaisant, courteous, fair, fair-spoken, friendly, gentle, gracious, kind, mellow, nice, obliging, pleasant, polite, smooth, smooth spoken, smooth tongued, smooth-faced, soft spoken, urbane, well spoken), привлекателен (alluring, appealing, attractive, catching, catchy, congenial, cute, desirable, engaging, enticing, fetching, ingratiating, interesting, inviting, lickerish, likable, likeable, likely, lovable, pleasing, prepossessing, pretty, seductive, sightly, taking, tempting, winsome, yummy). (various references)

Chinese 

有礼 (debonaire). (various references)

Farsi 

مودب (Courteous, Courtly, Decorous, Housebroken, Mannerly, Nice, Respectful, Suave, Unselfish, Urbane), متمدن (Urbanist(Ic)), خوشرفتار, شاد (Cheery, Exultant, Glad, Happy, Joyful, Merry). (various references)

French

doucereux, raffiné, content. (various references)

German

zuvorkommend (courteous, helpful, obliging, preventing), höflich (bland, blandly, civil, civilly, complimentarily, complimentary, cordial, cordially, courteous, fairspoken, polite, politely, unrude, urbane, urbanely, well-mannered). (various references)

Greek 

κομψόσ (bijou, chic, comely, dainty, dapper, dressy, elegant, fancy, fine, jaunty, natty, neat, nifty, posh, pretty, prim, quaint, rakish, smart, spark plug, sparkish, spiffy, stylish, trig, trim, well groomed), φαιδρόσ (blithe, cheerful, gay, genial, guy, hilarious, jovial, vivacious, winsome), εύθυμοσ (blithe, chirpy, convivial, festive, frabjous, gay, happy go lucky, hilarious, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyous, light hearted, merry, mirthful, resilient, sprightly, zippy), ευγενήσ (civil, courteous, courtly, gallant, genteel, gentle, gentlemanly, gracious, kindly, ladylike, nobble, nobleman, patrician, polite, soulful, thoroughbred, urbane, well mannered), ανέμελοσ (carefree, casual, slap happy). (various references)

Hebrew 

� עים �"ליכות (suave), � � וח (at ease, calm, indolent, laid back, relaxed). (various references)

Hungarian

kellemes (affable, agreeable, benign, bland, comfortable, comfy, congenial, cushy, dainty, delectable, delicate, dulcet, engaging, enjoyable, fine, genial, glad, grateful, harmonious, likable, lovely, nice, palatable, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable, refined, soft, suave, sweet, to elate, welcome), joviális (jocose, jovial), jókedvû (chirpy, gay, gleeful, gleesome, jocund, joyful, light hearted, merry, slap happy). (various references)

Indonesian

riang (boon, carefree, glee, hilarious, jocund), ramah (genial, gentle, kind, neighborly). (various references)

Italian

affabile (affable, amiable, condescending, fair, good humoured, good-humored, gracious, kindly, obliging). (various references)

Pig Latin

ebonairday.(various references)

Portuguese

jovial (blithe, blithesome, breezy, cant, canty, cheerful, convivial, gay, genial, jocular, joky, jolly, jovial, lively, mellow, merry, mirthful, rakish, resilient, rollicking, sprightly, winsome), cortês (chivalrous, civil, complimentary, courteous, mannerly, neighborly, neighbourly, parliamentary, polite, respectful, soft, suave, urbane, well-bred), afável (affable, benign, friendly, kind, soft, tractable). (various references)

Romanian

degajat (airily, breezy, easy, free, free and easy, informal, untrammelled), vesel (blithe, blithesome, boon, breezy, bright, cheerful, cheerfully, cheery, chirpy, convivial, crank, elastic, feastful, festal, frisky, frolic, frolicsome, full-blooded, gaily, gamesome, gay, genial, glad, gladsome, gleeful, happy, hilarious, in full feather, in high feather, jauntily, jaunty, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyfully, joyous, lively, mellow, merry, mirthful, playful, pleasant, riant, saucy, sprightly, tails up, wanton), bine dispus (cheerful, crank, full of beans, full-blooded, good humoured, good-humored, in good spirits, jolly, merry, mettlesome, tails up, well disposed). (various references)

Russian 

жизнерадостный (blithe, buoyant, eupeptic, good-humoured, jolly as sandboy, lively as a cricket, merry as a cricket, resilient, rose-coloured, zestful). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

nonšalantnost (nonchalance), nonšalantan (nonchalant), neusiljenost (genuineness), neusiljen (casual, natural, unaffected, unconstrained, unlabored, unlaboured), nemaran (careless, casual, delinquent, devil may care, easygoing, feckless, floppy, inattentive, incurious, indifferent, neglectful, negligent, reckless, slack, slipshod, sloppy), ljubazan (affable, amiable, amicable, benignant, complaisant, kind, kind hearted, kindly, likable, likeable, lovable, nice, obliging, suave). (various references)

Spanish

cortés (attentive, civil, complaisant, courteous, courtly, gallant, genteel, gracious, mannerly, polite, suave, urbane, well bred, well mannered, well-mannered). (various references)

Swedish

älskvärd (affable, amiable, complaisant, endearing, good humoured, good-humored, gracious, kind, winsome). (various references)

Turkish

neşeli (airy, animate, animated, blithe, boon, breezy, bright, bucked, buoyant, buoyed up, cheerful, cheerfully, cheery, chirpy, cock-a-hoop, debonaire, easygoing, eupeptic, exhilarated, fit as a fiddle, full of beans, gamesome, gay, genial, gleeful, high, hilarious, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, lively, merry, merrymaking, mirthful, perky, rambunctious, rollicking, slaphappy, spirited, sportive, sprightly, sunny, upbeat, vivacious), nazik (affable, attentive, brittle, civil, civilized, civil-spoken, complaisant, considerate, courteous, dainty, debonaire, decent, delicate, distingue, Douce, eggshell, exquisite, fair, genteel, gentle, gracious, kid glove, kind, mannerly, mild, obliging, parliamentary, polished, polite, suave, sweet-natured, tender, ticklish, tickly, touchy, trickish, tricky, urbane, well disposed), hoş (affable, agreeable, beautiful, bonny, canny, charming, clean-cut, congenial, debonaire, delectable, delicious, delightful, desirable, elegant, enjoyable, fine, fragrant, handsome, jolly, kind, kindly, likable, likeable, lovable, lovely, nice, nicely, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable, prettily, pretty, sapid, smart, smooth, suave, subtile, subtle, sweetly, tuneful, well, winning, winsome), güleryüzlü (debonaire, jocund, smiling, smooth-faced), şirin (cunning, cute, debonaire, fair, lovely, pleasant, sonsy, winsome). (various references)

Ukrainian

чемний (affable, attentive, civil, courteous, gentlemanly, mannerly, well spoken), галантність (douceur, gallantry), ввічливий (affable, bland, civil, complaisant, conventional, courteous, courtly, diplomatic, discreet, mannerly, polite, respectful, suave, urbane), веселий (airy, blithe, boon, breezy, bright, canty, cavalier, cheerful, cheery, chipper, chirpy, convivial, exhilarated, gay, happy go lucky, jolly, jovial, merry, mirthful, perky, pleasant, rackety, sportful, sunny), елегантний (becoming, chic, delicate, elegant, genteel, graceful, nice, nifty, primp, silk stocking, smirk, spiffed, swagger, swell, well-tailored), при�"мність поводження, добродушний (genial, good humoured, good-humored, well-natured, well-tempered). (various references)

Vietnamese 

vui vẻ (blithe, blithesome, boon, canty, cheery, chirk, gay, genial, glad, gladsome, good-humored, good-humoured, heartily, hearty, hilarious, jocular, jocund, jolly, jovial, laughing, merrily, mirthful, pleasant, sportful), vui tính; ho� nhã phóng khoáng. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "debonair": debonairly, debonairness, debonairnesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Debonair" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cebotari, debonaire, debone, deboniar, debonnair, Deobandis, deponere, Doebner. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: aneroid, bandore, brained, broaden, inboard.

-2 letters: abider, bander, binder, bonder, bonier, borane, boride, brined, denari, dinero, inbred, inroad, ironed, ordain, rained, rebind, riband, roadie, roband.

-3 letters: abide, abode, adobe, adore, adorn, aider, aired, anode, ardeb, aroid, bairn, baned, barde, bared, baron, beano, beard, bider, board, boned, boner, bored, borne, braid, brain, brand, bread.

+1 letter: bandolier.

+2 letters: bandoliers, boundaries, broadening, brominated, carbonized, debonairly, linerboard, panbroiled, reboarding, reobtained.

+3 letters: arabinoside, becowarding, debarkation, decarbonize, fingerboard, forbiddance, keyboarding, linerboards, subordinate.

+4 letters: arabinosides, banderillero, biodegrading, brainstormed, considerable, considerably, debarkations, debonairness, decarbonized, decarbonizer, decarbonizes, deliberation, dermabrasion, dibenzofuran, dishonorable, fingerboards, forbiddances, imponderable, imponderably, outbargained, proboscidean, subordinated, subordinates.

+5 letters: banderilleros, bidirectional, boardinghouse, breadboarding, considerables, decarbonating, decarbonation, decarbonizers, decarbonizing, decerebration, defibrination, deliberations, dermabrasions, dibenzofurans, imponderables, insubordinate, nondeliberate, proboscideans, radiolabeling, rekeyboarding, rhabdomancies, skateboarding, subordinately, subordinative.