Jaunty

Definition: Jaunty

Jaunty

Adjective

1. Marked by smartness in dress and manners; "a dapper young man"; "a jaunty red hat".

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 "jaunty" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)

Note: Jaunty \Jaun"ty\, adjective. [Comparative Jauntier; superlative Jauntiest.]. (references)

Synonyms: Jaunty

Beauty

Goodly, dapper, tight, jimp; gimp; janty, jaunty; trig, natty, quaint, trim, tidy,neat, spruce, smart, tricksy.

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.

Fashion

Polished, refined, thoroughbred, courtly; distingue; unembarrassed, degage; janty, jaunty; dashing, fast.

Insolence

Impudent, audacious, presumptuous, free and easy, devil-may-care, rollicking; jaunty, janty; roistering, blustering, hectoring, swaggering, vaporing; thrasonic, fire eating, "full of sound and fury ".

Ostentation

Adjective: ostentatious, showy, dashing, pretentious; janty, jaunty; grand, pompous, palatial; high-sounding; turgid; (big-sounding); gairish, garish; gaudy, gaudy as a butterfly, gaudy as a tulip; flaunting, flashing, flaming, glittering; gay; (ornate).

Rashness

Hot-blooded, hotheaded, hotbrained; headlong, headstrong; breakneck; foolhardy; harebrained; precipitate, impulsive. overconfident, overweening; venturesome, venturous; adventurous, Quixotic, fire eating, cavalier; janty, jaunty, free and easy.

Crosswords: Jaunty

Books

• Incredible Land: A Jaunty Baedeker To Hollywood And The Great Southwest (reference)

• Jaunty Jock and other stories (reference)

• Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies: Monte Carlo or Bust (reference)

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

Expression using "jaunty": jaunty car. Additional references.

Beginning with "jaunty": jaunty-peaked.

Albanian

i vetëkënaqur (complacent, coxcombical, egotist, fatuous, self sufficient, self-righteous, self-satisfied, smug), gazmor (cheerful, cheery, convivial, debonair, easygoing, exhilarated, gay, genial, gladsome, gleeful, gleesome, hilarious, jocular, jocund, jollier, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, light hearted, lively, merry, mirthful, perky, riant, set up, zippy). (various references)

Arabic 

‏يقظ (alert, awake, awoke, careful, circumspect, lively, mindful, napless, observant, on duty, open-eyed, prompt, springy, vigilant, wakeful, wary, watchful, wide awake), ‏مرح (airiness, airy, be merry, blithe, breezy, bright, buoyancy, buoyant, cheerful, cheerfulness, cheering, chirpy, exult, facetious, festive, fresh, frisk, frisky, frolic, frolicsome, fun, gaiety, gay, glee, gleeful, have fun, hilarious, hilarity, jocose, jocosity, jocund, jolly, jovial, joviality, joy, joyful, joyfulness, joyous, kittenish, lark, light, lightsome, lively, make merry, merriment, merry, merry making, mirth, mirthful, perkiness, perky, playful, playfulness, playing, rejoice, rollick, romp, sportive, sprightly, sunny, vivacious, vivacity, what fun, winsome), ‏نشيط (active, adroit, alert, athletic, dapper, driving, energetic, forceful, hustler, live wire, lively, proud, robust, sharp, spirited, sprightly, spry, stout, strenuous, vigorous, vivacious), ‏طروب (gleeful), ‏أنيق (bijou, chic, classy, coxcomb, dainty, dapper, dashing, dinky, dressy, elegant, exclusive, fine, gallant, genteel, good looking, gracious, ladylike, mincing, natty, neat, nice, perky, personable, posh, presentable, rich, saucy, seemly, sharp, smart, smug, sophisticated, spick and span, sporting, sportsmanlike, sporty, spruce, stylish, suave, swagger, swell, tailor made, taut, tidy, tight, trim, well groomed). (various references)

Bulgarian 

самодоволен (airy, bighead, cock-a-hoop, complacent, self-righteous, self-satisfied, smug), весел (airy, blithe, blithesome, boisterous, bright, buoyant, canty, cheery, chirp, chirpy, colorful, colourful, coltish, convivial, daft, debonair, exhilarated, festal, gamesome, gay, genial, gladsome, gleeful, gleesome, good humoured, good-humored, high, humorous, 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), наперен (flashy, perky, prancing, roistering, swanky), жив (above ground, active, agile, alert, alive, animate, breezy, brisk, cheerful, dashing, high-colored, high-coloured, jazz, jazzy, live, lively, living, lusty, mercurial, mobile, nervous, nimble, organic, peppy, perky, pert, picturesque, pregnant, quick, racy, rattling, round, saucy, sharp, skittish, snappy, spicy, spirited, sprightly, spry, swinging, vital, vivacious, vivid, volatile, warm, whippy, zappy, zippy), жизнерадостен (cheery, debonair, elastic, genial, high-spirited, sanguine). (various references)

Chinese 

轻松活泼. (various references)

Czech

veselý (blithesome, bright, cheerful, chirpy, convivial, exhilarated, gay, gleeful, happy, high-spirited, hilarious, humorous, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyous, light hearted, lively, merry, mirthful, pleasant, rollicking, rorty, sportful, vivacious), bujarý (exuberant, hilarious), bezstarostný (carefree, careless, cavalier, easy, easygoing, free from care, gay, happy go lucky, laid back, light hearted, light-headed, reckless, slaphappy, unconcerned). (various references)

Dutch

monter (cheerful, gay, merry), keurig (decent, fitting, gentlemanlike, ladylike, pretty, proper, suitable). (various references)

Farsi 

مغرور (Bigheaded, Haughty, Overbearing, Presumptuous, Proud, Snob, Snobbish, Stuffy, Supercilious, Swagger, Uppish, Vain), لاقید (Glib, Indfferent, Slipshod, Thoughtless, Unconcerned), گستاخ (Arrogant, Barefaced, Bold, Boldface, Brash, Cheeky, Forward, Immodest, Impertinent, Impudent, Indecent, Insolent, Perky, Pert, Presumptuous, Rude, Unabashed, Unshaped(En), Wanton), زرنگ (Adroit, Agile, Apt, Bright, Clever, Dapper, Nimble, Pawky, Shifty, Shrewd, Slicker, Smart, Snide, Spry), خودنما (Airy, Blatant, Cocky, Ostentatious, Perky, Priggish, Showy), خودساز (Puppyish), جلف (Gaudy, Jackanapes, Racy, Rank, Sporty, Tawdry). (various references)

Finnish

remseä (free and easy), rempseä (free and easy), railakas (brisk, carefree). (various references)

French

joyeux, vif, enjoué, désinvolte, chic, allègre. (various references)

German

munter (adroit, agile, alert, awake, blithe, blithely, blithesome, breezy, bright, brisk, cheerful, frisky, gay, jauntily, keen, lilting, liltingly, lively, merry, perkily, perky, playful, sprightly, up, up and about, vivacious), flotte (fleet, navy). (various references)

Greek 

κεφάτοσ (buoyant, cheerful, jovial, merry), καμαρωτόσ, κομψόσ (bijou, chic, comely, dainty, dapper, debonair, dressy, elegant, fancy, fine, natty, neat, nifty, posh, pretty, prim, quaint, rakish, smart, spark plug, sparkish, spiffy, stylish, trig, trim, well groomed), ξένοιαστοσ (carefree, easy going, insouciant, unwary), ζωηρόσ (bobbish, bouncing, breezy, brisk, buoyant, buxom, cheery, chipper, crisp, dapper, dashing, frisky, gay, grig, lightsome, live, lively, lurid, mercurial, peppy, perky, poignant, quick, racy, rompish, smacking, smart, snappish, snappy, spanking, sparkish, spicy, spirited, sprightly, spry, stirring, vibrant, vivacious, vivid, volatile, zippy), εύχαρισ (graceful), ευχάριστοσ (agreeable, congenial, consonant, convivial, cosy, cozy, delectable, engaging, gladsome, groovy, piquant, pleasant, pleasing, satisfactory). (various references)

Hebrew 

שופע עליזות, קליל (light, nimble, scanty). (various references)

Hungarian

könnyed (airy, colloquial, ethereal, facile, fluent, free and easy, graceful, light, lightsome, off hand, off-handed, tripping), vidám (amused, blithe, blithe as a lark, bobbish, cheerful, chirpy, comic, comical, daft, dashing, droll, exhilarated, felicitous, frisky, frolicsome, gay, glad, gladsome, gleeful, gleesome, hilarious, jocose, jocular, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, light hearted, light-hearted, mellow, merry, mirthful, playful, rejoicing, rollicking, sprightly, sunny, to be in high spirits), hetyke (assured of the future, brash, cavalier, cocksy, perky, pert, rakish). (various references)

Italian

vivace (alive, animated, bright, brisk, buoyant, chirpy, colorful, colourful, dashing, frisky, gay, lively, perky, quick, racy, skittish, spirited, sprightly, spry, vibrant, vigorous, vivacious, vivid), disinvolto (casual, easy, informally, laid back, offhand), arzillo (alert, brisk, dapper, lively, sprightly, spry, tingling). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

颯爽 (dashing, gallant). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

さっそう (dashing, gallant). (various references)

Korean 

쾌활한 (Cheerful, frisky, Playful). (various references)

Manx

aeroil (airy, volatile), aeragh (aerated, airy, atmospheric, carefree, coltish, etherial). (various references)

Norwegian

munter (cheerful, gay, merry), kvikk (fast, quickly, swiftly). (various references)

Pig Latin

auntyjay.(various references)

Portuguese

satisfeito de si, despachado (adroit, expeditious, light-handed, speedy), desenvolto (flippant, perky), confiante (confident, credent, questionless, reliant, secure, sure, trustful, unsuspecting), bem disposto (agreeable, canty, cheerful, jolly, orderly, peart, tidy, well-disposed), alegre (alive, blithe, blithesome, bonny, boon, breezy, brisk, buoyant, buxom, canty, cheerful, cheery, chirpy, coltish, convivial, corky, diverting, entertaining, exhilarated, festal, festive, frolicsome, gamesome, gay, glad, gladsome, gleeful, happy, hilarious, holiday, jocular, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, jubilant, larksome, laughing, light, light-hearted, lightsome, lively, merry, mirthful, peart, resilient, slaphappy, sportful, sportive, sprightly, tipsy, vivid, volatile, winsome). (various references)

Romanian

voios (cheerful, cheerfully, exhilarated, festival, genial, genially, glad, gleeful, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, mellow, merrily, merry, mirthful, saucy), vesel (blithe, blithesome, boon, breezy, bright, cheerful, cheerfully, cheery, chirpy, convivial, crank, debonair, elastic, feastful, festal, frisky, frolic, frolicsome, full-blooded, gaily, gamesome, gay, genial, glad, gladsome, gleeful, happy, hilarious, in full feather, in high feather, jauntily, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyfully, joyous, lively, mellow, merry, mirthful, playful, pleasant, riant, saucy, sprightly, tails up, wanton), stilat (stylish, well-schooled), sãltãreţ (hopping, skipping, sprightly), pus la punct (dapper, finished, shipshape, spick and span), nepãsãtor (airily, apathetic, apathetical, apathetically, careless, casual, devil may care, easy going, happy go lucky, heedless, impassible, impassive, inconsiderate, incurious, indifferent, indolent, insensible, insouciant, lackadaisical, listless, neglectful, negligent, nonchalant, reckless, regardless, remiss, slack, slow, stolid, thoughtless, unmoved), fercheş (dapper, nutty, smug, spicy, swell, trim), elegant (daintily, dainty, Dandy, dashing, dressy, elegant, fashionable, gallant, genteel, gentle, graceful, gracefully, polite, smart, smartly, smug, spicy, stylish, swell, tasty, well-dressed). (various references)

Russian 

развязный (bounder, forward, loud, pert, pushy, sassy), бойкий;шикарный, беспечный (carefree, careless, easygoing, happy go lucky, happy-go-lucky, light-hearted, reckless, rocked in security, thoughtless, unconcerned, unguarded, unthinking). (various references)

Scottish

iallach. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

samouveren (self confident), razmetljiv (braggart, bragging, brassy, ostentatious, rodomontade, showy, sporty, swank, thrasonical), bezbrižan (blithe, carefree, fancy-free, happy go lucky). (various references)

Spanish

vivaz (breezy, vivacious, zappy, zestful), vivaracho (dapper, frisky), satisfecho (content, contented, glad, happy, pleased, satisfied, superior), garboso (graceful, magnanimous), desenvuelto (cavalierly, informal, perky, rakish, unforced), de satisfacción (pleased), de alegría (live), confiado (confidant, confident, gullible, gullibly, reliant, trustful), alegre (airy, blithe, blithesome, boon, breezy, bright, canty, cheerful, cheery, chipper, Chirk, chirpy, chuffed, contentious, convivial, debonair, felicitous, gamesome, gay, glad, happy, high-spirited, holiday, jocose, jolly, joyful, light, light hearted, lightsome, lively, merry, mirthful, perky, pert, playful, pleased, rollicking, sportful, sporty, swinging, upbeat, zappy), airoso (airy, charming, graceful). (various references)

Swedish

ogenerad (airy, cool, free and easy, unabashed), nonchalant (airy, casual, casually, cavalier, flippant, lackadaisical, off hand, offhand, offhanded). (various references)

Thai

ร่าเริง ((as) happy as a lark, exuberant, frolicsome, gleeful, jolly, lively, spunk up). (various references)

Turkish

kaygısız (buoyant, carefree, careless, freewheeling, gaily, insouciant, light hearted, unconcerned), havalı (airy, dashing, flash, flatulent, hot air, La-di-da, la-di-dah, nifty, Nobby, ostentatious, pneumatic, posh, rakish, show off, showy, stylish, swagger, swanky, swell, swish, tonish), şen (blithe, breezy, cheerful, cheery, convivial, eupeptic, frolicsome, gay, gleeful, jocund, jolly, merry, merrymaking, mirthful, sportive), şık (alternative, chic, choice, classy, dandyish, dapper, dashing, doggy, dressy, elegant, fashionable, flash, go-go, in the ton, mod, nifty, posh, rakish, saucy, sharp, sleek, smart, smooth, smug, snappy, snazzy, spicy, spiffing, spiffy, sporty, streamlined, stylish, swagger, swanky, swell, swish, thoroughbred, tidy, tonish, trig, up-market). (various references)

Ukrainian

самовдоволений (cock-a-hoop, complacent, coxcombical, opinioned, prick-eared, self-approving, self-complacent, self-righteous, self-satisfied, smug, stuck up), жвавий (active, agile, airy, alert, alive, alive and kicking, animated, breezy, brisk, canty, chirpy, crisp, dashing, exhilarated, gleg, live, living, mobile, nimble, peppy, perky, slippy, sprightly, vivid, whisky, youthful, zippy), безтурботний (carefree, careless, cavalier, devil may care, easygoing, effortless, gay, happy go lucky, heedless, inadvertent, light hearted, neglectful, negligent, nonchalant, placid, rollicking, serene, unconcerned, watchless). (various references)

Vietnamese 

vui vẻ; hoạt bát thong dong khoái chí; có vẻ tự mãn, vui nhộn (frolic, hilarious, rollicking). (various references)

Welsh

talog. (various references)

gentil. (various references)

gentil. (various references)

Misspellings

"Jaunty" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: jaint, jainty, Jakutia, janety, Jatun, jaubty, jault, jaun, jaund, jaunte, jauntey, jaunti, jauntie, jauntly, jaut, jeunt, Jonti, jonty, jount, juanty, jundy, junty, taunty, vaunty. (additional references)

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: aunty, janty, jaunt, junta.

-2 letters: aunt, tuna, yuan.

-3 letters: ant, any, jay, jun, jut, nay, nut, taj, tan, tau, tun, uta.

-4 letters: an, at, ay, na, nu, ta, un, ut, ya.

+2 letters: jauntily.

+3 letters: adjunctly, adjutancy.

+4 letters: jubilantly.

+5 letters: conjugality, conjugately, subjacently.