Rakish

Definition: Rakish

Rakish

Adjective

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

2. Marked by a carefree unconventionality or disreputableness; "a cocktail party given by some...raffish bachelors"- Crary Moore.

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

Date "rakish" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1838. (references)

Synonyms: Rakish

Impurity

Unchaste, light, wanton, licentious, debauched, dissolute; of loose character, of easy virtue; frail, gay, riggish, incontinent, meretricious, rakish, gallant, dissipated; no better than she should be; on the town, on the streets, on the pave, on the loose.

Intemperance

Adjective: intemperate,inabstinent; sensual, self-indulgent; voluptuous, luxurious, licentious, wild, dissolute, rakish, fast, debauched.

Crosswords: Rakish

Music

• Rakish Paddy (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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

Albanian

skiç (askance, askew, sideways), mënjanë (acock, apart, aside, by), e derdhur. (various references)

Arabic 

‏فاسق (bawdy, debauched, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, don juan, fornicator, immoral, lascivious, lecherous, lewd, libertine, licentious, light, lubricious, miscreant, obscene, philanderer, profligate, punk, raffish, scab, scarlet, slippery, unchaste, uninhibited, wanton), ‏فاجر (bawdy, dissipated, dissolute, lecher, libertine, licentious, obscene, obscenity, profligate, rake, wanton), ‏فارع (feckless, soaring), ‏قوام فارع, ‏غير متقيد بالعرف, ‏خليع (dissipated, dissolute, lewd, libertine, licentious, profligate, rake, uninhibited, wanton), ‏أهيف (slender), ‏أنيق المظهر. (various references)

Bulgarian 

стегнат (close-textured, compact, concise, crisp, firm, natty, neat, sailorly, serried, sinewy, soldierlike, soldierly, spiffing, spiffy, taut, tidy, tight, tricksy, trig, trim, well groomed), спретнат (dapper, dinky, prim, sailorly, smart, smug, snug, tidy, tight, tricksy, trig, trim, well groomed), развратен (abandoned, debauched, dissolute, fast, filthy, goatish, immoral, impure, lax, lecherous, lewd, lickerish, perverted, profligate, reprobate, scarlet, sporty), разпуснат (dissolute, fast, free, gay, incontinent, lax, loose, profligate, raffish, self-abandoned, ungovernable, unregenerated, unsteady, wanton), шик (chic, classy, dressy, pansy, pert, posh, saucy, snazzy, swell, swish), моден (chic, current, fashionable, genteel, go, high-toned, in, mainstream, mod, modern, modish, new, newfangled, nifty, saucy, smart, stylish, swanky, swell, swinging, swish), екстравагантен (extravagant, high-flown, outrageous, quizzical, viewy), елегантен (classy, dashing, debonair, doggy, dressy, elegant, feat, fine, genteel, graceful, jimp, mod, nifty, plush, plushy, posh, saucy, sharp, silk stocking, smart, snappy, stylish, swell, swish, tasty), бързоходен (high speed, tripping). (various references)

Czech

zpustlý (debauched, depraved, desolate, dissolute, raffish, uncared for, vicious), zhýralý (debauched, dissolute), prostopášný (debauched, dissolute, libidinous, licentious, loose, profligate, wanton), hejskovský. (various references)

Farsi 

فاجر (Dissolute, Rake), هرزه (Bawdy, Dissolute, Harlot, Immoral, Lascivious, Lewd, Libertine, Licentious, Loose, Perverse, Profligate, Prurient, Rake, Reprobate, Ribald, Salacious, Sordid), جلف وزننده , بدکار (Bad, Evildoer, Nefarious, Vicious, Wicked). (various references)

French

libertin (raffish), dissolu (raffish), débauché (rake), chic, élancé. (various references)

German

salopp (casual, rakishly, slangily, slangy, sloppy, slovenly). (various references)

Greek 

κομψόσ (bijou, chic, comely, dainty, dapper, debonair, dressy, elegant, fancy, fine, jaunty, natty, neat, nifty, posh, pretty, prim, quaint, smart, spark plug, sparkish, spiffy, stylish, trig, trim, well groomed), έκλυτοσ (abandoned, rake), γερτόσ, λοξόσ (askew, awry, cockeyed, crackpot, devious, kinky, oblique, sidelong, skew, slant, slanting, transverse, wry), ακόλαστοσ (debauchee, dissolute, lecherous, libertine, loose, profligate). (various references)

Hebrew 

�"ולל (licentious, mirthful, profligate, rake, unruly). (various references)

Hungarian

kicsapongó (dissipated, dissolute, fast, lecherous, libertine, licentious, pornerastic, profligate, raffish, riotous, roue). (various references)

Italian

libertino (debauchee, dissipated, excessive, lecher, libertine, rake, voluptuary), dissoluto (debauched, dissolute, goatish, lawless, licentious, profligate, riotous, roue, unchecked, unrestrained). (various references)

Manx

sheeynt (at full stretch, dilated, drawn out, extended, flat out, laid out, low-pitched, outstretched, procumbent, prolonged, prostrate, prostrated, sprained, sprawling, spreadeagled, strained, stretched, stretched out, tense, tense of moment, widespread), raistylagh (dissolute, dissoluteness, lecherous, raffish), cleaynt sheear. (various references)

Pig Latin

akishray.(various references)

Portuguese

libertino (free thinker, lascivious, lecherous, libertine, lothario, lovelace, playboy, profligate, raffish, rake, rep, ribald, rioter, roue, salacious, wanton, wasteful), jovial (blithe, blithesome, breezy, cant, canty, cheerful, convivial, debonair, gay, genial, jocular, joky, jolly, jovial, lively, mellow, merry, mirthful, resilient, rollicking, sprightly, winsome), folgazão (canty, frolic, frolicsome, gamesome, jolly, merry, rollicking, sportful, sporting, sportive, volatile), dissoluto (dissolute, immoral, loose, rackety), devasso (bawdry, dissolute, free thinker, immoral, lecherous, lewd, libertine, loose, lothario, playboy, profligate, roue, salacious, wanton, wasteful). (various references)

Romanian

rapid (cursory, express, fast, quick, rapid, spanking, speedy, swift, transient), zvelt (slender, slim, stalky, supple, tall), desfrânat (abandoned, bad, debauched, dissipated, dissolute, incontinent, lewd, lickerish, lustful, man of pleasure, meretricious, profligate, raffish, rake, reinless, reprobate, reveller, ribald, rioter, riotous, rip, ruttish, salacious, unchaste, unrestrained, unruly, wanton, whoremaster). (various references)

Russian 

распутный (dissolute, lecherous, lewd, libertine, meretricious, profligate, promiscuous, salacious, wenchy), легкомысленный (empty headed, empty-headed, fast, flighty, flippant, frivolous, harum scarum, light, light minded, lightheaded, light-headed, light-minded, scatter-brained, slap-happy, unreflecting, unthinking), лихой (dashing, sporty), быстроходный (high speed, spanking). (various references)

Scottish

sgaoimeil. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

raskalašan (abandoned, dissipated, dissolute, fast, licentious, loose, rascally, riotous, swinging), nagnut (bevel, declivous, inclined, leaning, sideling, slanting, sloping). (various references)

Spanish

veloz (fast, fleet, fleet-footed, nippy, speedy, swift, zappy), ligero (agile, airy, double quick, facile, faint, fast, feathery, flippant, gentle, hasty, light, light-handed, lightly, lightweight, lithe, mild, quick, quickly, quiet, remote, springy, swift, thin, twinkling), libertino (debauchee, lawless, libertine, licentious, profligate, promiscuous, rake, riotous, roue, tangle, unchecked, uncurbed, unhalted, unrestrained), gallardo (dashing, debonair, gallant, perky), elegante (bijou, chic, courtly, dainty, debonair, dressy, elegant, fashionable, Flossy, fragrant, genteel, graceful, handsome, ladylike, natty, neat, nifty, Nobby, posh, refined, silk stocking, smart, snazzy, sporty, stylish, trim), disoluto (debauchee, dissolute, loose, profligate, raffish), desenvuelto (cavalierly, informal, jaunty, perky, unforced), de palos inclinados, de mucho garbo. (various references)

Swedish

utsvävande (abandoned, dissipated, dissolute, licentious, profligate, riotous, wild), klämmig (gingery, peppy, spunky, zippy). (various references)

Thai

เพรียวลม (เรือ), เจ้าชู้, ฉู�"ฉา�" ((as) gaudy as a butterfly, garish). (various references)

Turkish

sefa pezevengi (good-time charlie), süratli (express, fast, fastmoving, quick, speedy, swift), hovarda (chaser, dissolute, gadabout, gay, libertine, licentious, masher, profligate, raffish, rake, rascal, riotous, rip, spark, sybarite, vagabond, wild), havalı (airy, dashing, flash, flatulent, hot air, jaunty, La-di-da, la-di-dah, nifty, Nobby, ostentatious, pneumatic, posh, show off, showy, stylish, swagger, swanky, swell, swish, tonish), hızlı (crash, expeditious, express, fast, fastmoving, fleet, frequent, hasty, high speed, impetuous, light footed, nippy, precipitous, presto, quick, quick-action, rapid, ready, snappy, speed, speedy, swift, winged, zippy), direkleri arkaya doğru yatık, şık (alternative, chic, choice, classy, dandyish, dapper, dashing, doggy, dressy, elegant, fashionable, flash, go-go, in the ton, jaunty, mod, nifty, posh, saucy, sharp, sleek, smart, smooth, smug, snappy, snazzy, spicy, spiffing, spiffy, sporty, streamlined, stylish, swagger, swanky, swell, swish, thoroughbred, tidy, tonish, trig, up-market), çapkın (amorist, chaser, debauchee, dissolute, flirt, flirtatious, lecherous, lewd, libertine, licentious, lothario, profligate, rake, rascal, rip, rogue, roguish, roue, vagabond, varlet, villain, wolf, womanizer). (various references)

Ukrainian

розпусний (bestial, debauched, lecherous, libertine, lickerish, meretricious, profligate, riotous, salacious, wide), швидкохідний (clipping, galloping), ошатний (jemmy). (various references)

Vietnamese 

ngang t� ng, chơi bời phóng đãng; trác táng ngông nghênh. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "rakish": rakishly, rakishness, rakishnesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Rakish" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: akash, brakish, crankish, orkish, Rabigh, rabish, raciis, raith, rakas, rakesh, rakic, rakis, Rakiz, ramish, rapish, rawish, renish, Riklis, Rikushin, ritish, Rokeach. (additional references)

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: shikar.

-1 letter: haiks, hairs, harks, rakis, shark, shirk.

-2 letters: airs, arks, haik, hair, hark, irks, khis, kirs, kris, raki, rash, rias, risk, saki, sari, sark, shri.

-3 letters: air, ais, ark, ars, ash, ask, has, his, irk, kas, khi, kir, rah, ras, ria, sha, sir, ska, ski, sri.

-4 letters: ah, ai, ar, as, ha, hi, is, ka.

+1 letter: darkish, kashmir, larkish, rankish, ricksha, rikisha, rikshaw, shakier, shikari, shikars.

+2 letters: brackish, crankish, freakish, hayricks, kashmirs, khirkahs, kitharas, prankish, rakishly, rashlike, rickshas, rickshaw, rikishas, rikshaws, sharking, shikaree, shikaris, sparkish.

+3 letters: airchecks, antishark, hairlocks, hairworks, heartsick, hijackers, kashering, katharsis, rickshaws, sharklike, sharkskin, shikarees, shikarred, shrinkage, whitracks.

+4 letters: artichokes, birthmarks, chickarees, freakishly, hairstreak, handiworks, jinricksha, jinrikisha, kohlrabies, kurbashing, prankishly, rainchecks, rakishness, reichsmark, sharkskins, shikarring, shirtmaker, shrinkable, shrinkages.