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Synonyms for dapper

  • adjective

Most common

well-dressed stylish fashionable natty

All synonyms

Adjective

1. Well-dressed — neat, trim

well-dressed, fashionable, natty, smart, stylish, dashing, classy, chic, well-tailored, rakish, jaunty, spiffy informal, neat, spruce, snappy, trim, raffish, trendy informal, snazzy slang

Other

gaybeseen dated

Antonyms

rinky-dink

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Definitions

  1. adj. 1

    Neat, trim.

Related words

Word family
dapperling dapperness

Choose the right word

Dapper, Spruce, Natty or Neat?

Dapper is spruce with the suggestion of smallness and slightness; natty, a diminutive of neat, suggests minute elegance, with a tendency toward the exquisite; as, a dapper little fellow in a natty business suit.

J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)

Example sentences

  • stylish These headphones are both stylish and comfortable.
  • fashionable Libertarianism is fashionable in tech bro circles.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
dapperrising
stylishrising
fashionablesteady
nattyrising

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

4 letters
neat1, trim1, chic1
5 letters
smart1, natty2
6 letters
classy2, trendy2, spruce1, snappy2, snazzy2, jaunty2, spiffy2, rakish2
7 letters
stylish2, dashing2, raffish2
9 letters
gaybeseen
11 letters
fashionable4

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (natty2 = 2 syllables).