Synonyms for swank

Most common

last word · chic · smartness · stylishness

Synonyms by meaning

Noun

Verb

Adjective

Definitions

1. n. 1

   A fashionably elegant person.

2. v. 1

   To swagger, to show off.

   Looks like she's going to swank in, flashing her diamonds, then swank out to another party.

3. adj. 1

   Fashionably elegant, posh.

Forms

Plural

swanks → chics, smartnesses, modishnesses, chicnesses…

Past participle

swanked
e.g. swanked → flashed, flaunted, ostentated, swaggered…

Example sentences

• chic What have you got against woodchip wallpaper? It looks chic!
• smartness Capricorns put everyone else's smartness to shame.

Popularity over time

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

By length

4 letters

tony², chic¹, flex¹

5 letters

flash¹, strut¹

6 letters

flaunt¹, swanky²

7 letters

stylish², swagger²

8 letters

chicness

9 letters

smartness², ostentate

10 letters

modishness

11 letters

fashionable⁴, stylishness

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (tony² = 2 syllables).