debonair

The word “debonair” has 3 syllables: de-bon-air

It's pronounced as /ˌdɛbənˈɛər/


What is synonym and antonym for debonair?

In the thesaurus, “debonair” has 79 synonyms and 60 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for debonair along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for debonair

  • affable
  • amiable
  • appealing
  • assured
  • attractive
  • blase
  • blithe
  • breezy
  • buoyant
  • calm
  • carefree
  • casual
  • cavalier
  • cheerful
  • civilized
  • collected
  • composed
  • confident
  • cool
  • cosmopolitan
  • courteous
  • couth
  • cultivated
  • cultured
  • dashing
  • detached
  • devil-may-care
  • easygoing
  • experienced
  • gay
  • genteel
  • glib
  • graceful
  • gracious
  • happy
  • happy-go-lucky
  • informal
  • insouciant
  • jaunty
  • knowing
  • laid-back
  • lighthearted
  • lightsome
  • low-pressure
  • metro
  • metropolitan
  • nonchalant
  • placid
  • pleasant
  • poised
  • polished
  • practiced
  • practised
  • refined
  • relaxed
  • schooled
  • seasoned
  • secure
  • self-assured
  • self-confident
  • self-possessed
  • serene
  • slaphappy
  • slick
  • smart
  • smooth
  • sophisticated
  • sprightly
  • suave
  • svelte
  • tranquil
  • unconcerned
  • unctuous
  • undisturbed
  • unfussy
  • unperturbed
  • urbane
  • well-bred
  • worldly-wise

Antonyms for debonair

  • anxious
  • awkward
  • boorish
  • callow
  • careful
  • careworn
  • cautious
  • churlish
  • classless
  • clownish
  • clumsy
  • concerned
  • diffident
  • earnest
  • gauche
  • gawky
  • graceless
  • grave
  • green
  • heedful
  • hick
  • inelegant
  • inexperienced
  • insecure
  • long-suffering
  • loutish
  • lubberly
  • overburdened
  • parochial
  • philistine
  • provincial
  • puerile
  • raw
  • rough-hewn
  • rustic
  • rustical
  • serious
  • serious-minded
  • somber
  • sombre
  • sorrowful
  • stiff
  • stilted
  • stodgy
  • uncharming
  • uncivilized
  • uncomfortable
  • uncouth
  • uncultured
  • undebonair
  • uneasy
  • ungainly
  • ungraceful
  • unrefined
  • unsophisticated
  • unworldly
  • upset
  • wary
  • wooden
  • worried

Meanings of debonair

  • noun
    1. Debonaire behaviour; graciousness.
  • adjective
    1. Gracious, courteous.
    2. Suave, urbane and sophisticated.
    3. (especially of men) Charming, confident and carefully dressed.

Example Sentences

  • His debonair charm made him the center of attention at every social event.
  • The actor played a debonair spy in the film, captivating audiences with his suave demeanor.
  • She admired his debonair style and effortless grace during their dinner date.
  • The debonair gentleman was known for his impeccable fashion sense and polished manners.
  • Despite the chaos around him, he maintained a debonair composure that impressed everyone.

On this page you'll find 139 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to debonair, such as: affable, amiable, anxious, appealing, assured, attractive, awkward.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

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  • active
  • agile
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  • amused
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  • blase
  • blessed
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  • delighted
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  • eager
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  • effervescent
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  • flashy
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  • frivolous
  • frolic
  • frolicsome
  • fun-loving
  • funny
  • gamesome
  • garish
  • gaudy
  • giddy
  • giggling
  • glad
  • gladdening
  • gladsome
  • gleaming
  • gleeful
  • gratified
  • grinning
  • happy
  • happy-go-lucky
  • heartening
  • heartwarming
  • high
  • high-spirited
  • high-strung
  • hilarious
  • hopeful
  • humorous
  • impertinent
  • impish
  • impudent
  • informal
  • insolent
  • insouciant
  • intense
  • jaunty
  • jazzy
  • jesting
  • jocose
  • jocular
  • jocund
  • joking
  • jolly
  • joshing
  • jovial
  • joyful
  • joyous
  • jubilant
  • keen
  • kinetic
  • laid-back
  • laughing
  • light-headed
  • lighthearted
  • lightsome
  • lilting
  • lively
  • low-pressure
  • lyric
  • merry
  • mettlesome
  • mirthful
  • nervous
  • nimble
  • nonchalant
  • on the go
  • open-eyed
  • optimistic
  • outgoing
  • overexuberant
  • overjoyed
  • peppy
  • perky
  • pert
  • pixieish
  • pizazzy
  • pizzazzy
  • playful
  • pleased
  • pleasure-seeking
  • presuming
  • pushy
  • racy
  • radiant
  • rapturous
  • raucous
  • ravished
  • relaxed
  • rich
  • riotous
  • rollicking
  • rosy
  • rowdy
  • sanguine
  • satisfied
  • saucy
  • self-assertive
  • showy
  • sidesplitting
  • silly
  • skittish
  • slaphappy
  • smiling
  • snappy
  • spanking
  • sparkling
  • sparkly
  • sparky
  • spiffy
  • spirited
  • sportive
  • sprightful
  • sprightly
  • springy
  • spry
  • sunny
  • thrilled
  • tickled
  • unconcerned
  • unfussy
  • uninhibited
  • up
  • upbeat
  • uproarious
  • vital
  • vivacious
  • wide-awake
  • wild
  • winsome
  • witty
  • zippy

dashing

  • absurd
  • accelerating
  • adventuresome
  • adventurous
  • afflicting
  • agitating
  • ailing
  • alert
  • animated
  • arrowing
  • asinine
  • audacious
  • balmy
  • barreling
  • barrelling
  • bathing
  • beating it
  • beelining
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  • belting
  • bespattering
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  • blowing
  • bold
  • bolting
  • bombing
  • bothering
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  • bowling
  • brainless
  • brash
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  • bundling
  • burdening
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  • cannonballing
  • cantering
  • careening
  • careering
  • casting
  • catapulting
  • catching up
  • chasing
  • chic
  • chucking
  • concerning
  • courageous
  • coursing
  • crazy
  • dabbling
  • dapper
  • daredevil
  • daring
  • darting
  • daunting
  • dauntless
  • dazzling
  • debonair
  • dejecting
  • demoralizing
  • depressing
  • discomforting
  • discomposing
  • discouraging
  • disheartening
  • dismaying
  • dispiriting
  • disquieting
  • distressing
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  • dousing
  • dowsing
  • drenching
  • driving
  • drowning
  • dumb
  • ejecting
  • elegant
  • emboldened
  • enterprising
  • exclusive
  • exercising
  • exuberant
  • fashionable
  • fast-forwarding
  • fearless
  • firing
  • flinging
  • flipping
  • flitting
  • flying
  • foolhardy
  • foolish
  • free-swinging
  • gadarene
  • gallant
  • galloping
  • gay
  • getting a move on
  • getting down
  • greathearted
  • gritty
  • gunning
  • gutsy
  • half-witted
  • hardy
  • harebrained
  • haring
  • hastening
  • hasty
  • headlong
  • heaving
  • heedless
  • heroic
  • heroical
  • hieing
  • highballing
  • hooking
  • hotheaded
  • humping
  • hurling
  • hurrying
  • hurtling
  • hustling
  • hying
  • idiotic
  • idiotical
  • impelling
  • impetuous
  • impregnating
  • imprudent
  • impulsive
  • incautious
  • insane
  • intrepid
  • irrational
  • jaunty
  • jetting
  • jogging
  • jumping
  • keen
  • lapping
  • launching
  • leaping
  • letting fly
  • lionhearted
  • lively
  • lobbing
  • lofting
  • loping
  • lunatic
  • mad
  • madcap
  • making tracks
  • modish
  • moronic
  • motoring
  • nerved
  • nervy
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  • nutty
  • oppressing
  • outpacing
  • outrunning
  • outstripping
  • overbold
  • overconfident
  • overtaking
  • passing
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  • pegging
  • pelting
  • perturbing
  • pitching
  • plashing
  • plucky
  • precipitate
  • precipitating
  • projecting
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  • racing
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  • rushing
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  • scatterbrained
  • scooting
  • scudding
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  • scurrying
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  • shagging
  • shaking a leg
  • shooting
  • showy
  • silly
  • skipping
  • slinging
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  • smart
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  • spattering
  • speeding
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  • sporty
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  • squirting
  • stalwart
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  • stepping
  • stepping on it
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  • stout
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  • streaking
  • stupid
  • stylish
  • swank
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  • tearing
  • thoughtless
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  • tormenting
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  • traveling
  • travelling
  • tripping
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  • unafraid
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  • undoing
  • unhinging
  • unnecessary
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  • unsettling
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  • valiant
  • valorous
  • venturesome
  • venturous
  • vivacious
  • wacky
  • washing
  • watering
  • weighing down
  • whacky
  • whirling
  • whisking
  • whizzing
  • wild
  • witless
  • worrying
  • zipping
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jaunty

  • active
  • agile
  • agog
  • airy
  • alert
  • animate
  • animated
  • awake
  • boisterous
  • bold
  • bouncing
  • brash
  • breezy
  • bright
  • brisk
  • bubbly
  • buoyant
  • carefree
  • careless
  • cheerful
  • chipper
  • chirpy
  • chirrupy
  • cocky
  • dapper
  • dashing
  • debonair
  • devil-may-care
  • devilish
  • eager
  • easy
  • ebullient
  • effervescent
  • energetic
  • enthusiastic
  • exhilarated
  • exuberant
  • flip
  • flippant
  • forward
  • free
  • fresh
  • frisky
  • frolicsome
  • gamesome
  • gay
  • high-spirited
  • high-strung
  • hilarious
  • impetuous
  • impish
  • impudent
  • jazzy
  • jocose
  • joking
  • jolly
  • jovial
  • keen
  • kinetic
  • light
  • lively
  • mettlesome
  • natty
  • nervous
  • nervy
  • nimble
  • on the go
  • open-eyed
  • peppy
  • perky
  • pert
  • pixieish
  • pizazzy
  • pizzazzy
  • playful
  • prankish
  • provocative
  • racy
  • reckless
  • rollicking
  • self-confident
  • showy
  • skittish
  • smart
  • snappy
  • spanking
  • sparkly
  • sparky
  • spiffy
  • spirited
  • sportive
  • sporty
  • sprightly
  • springy
  • spruce
  • spry
  • swaggering
  • trim
  • up
  • upbeat
  • venturesome
  • vital
  • vivacious
  • wide-awake
  • zippy

sophisticated

  • Byzantine
  • Kafkaesque
  • adult
  • adulterated
  • amiable
  • appealing
  • artificial
  • assured
  • attenuated
  • attractive
  • baroque
  • been around
  • befouled
  • bored
  • byzantine
  • calm
  • cavalier
  • challenging
  • cheapened
  • chichi
  • citified
  • civilized
  • collected
  • complex
  • complexed
  • complexified
  • complicate
  • complicated
  • composed
  • composite
  • compound
  • confident
  • confounded
  • confused
  • contaminated
  • convoluted
  • cool
  • corrupted
  • cosmopolitan
  • counterfeited
  • couth
  • cultivated
  • cultured
  • cut
  • cynical
  • daedal
  • debased
  • debonair
  • defiled
  • degraded
  • delicate
  • detailed
  • developed
  • difficult
  • diluted
  • dirtied
  • disenchanted
  • disillusioned
  • doctored
  • down-to-earth
  • elaborate
  • elaborated
  • elegant
  • embarrassed
  • entangled
  • envenomed
  • expanded
  • experienced
  • exquisite
  • extended
  • extravagant
  • exuberant
  • faked
  • falsified
  • fancified
  • fancy
  • flamboyant
  • fouled
  • frilly
  • fudged
  • genteel
  • glib
  • graceful
  • gracious
  • grand
  • grandiose
  • heterogeneous
  • highly developed
  • impenetrable
  • in
  • in the know
  • incomprehensible
  • inexplicable
  • infected
  • intensified
  • into
  • intricate
  • involute
  • involuted
  • involved
  • jaded
  • jet-set
  • knotty
  • knowing
  • labyrinthian
  • labyrinthine
  • laced
  • laid-back
  • loaded
  • magnificent
  • magnified
  • manipulated
  • mature
  • metro
  • metropolitan
  • misrepresented
  • mixed
  • moderated
  • modern
  • mondaine
  • muddled
  • multibranched
  • multifaceted
  • multifarious
  • multipart
  • on to
  • ornate
  • ostentatious
  • overcomplex
  • overcomplicated
  • overwrought
  • perplexed
  • placid
  • poised
  • poisoned
  • polished
  • polluted
  • practical
  • practiced
  • practised
  • pragmatic
  • pragmatical
  • qualified
  • realistic
  • refined
  • schooled
  • seasoned
  • secure
  • self-assured
  • self-confident
  • self-possessed
  • serene
  • sharp
  • showy
  • skeptical
  • slick
  • smart
  • smooth
  • snarled
  • sober
  • soiled
  • souped-up
  • spiked
  • splendid
  • spoiled
  • spoilt
  • stagy
  • streetwise
  • studied
  • suave
  • subtle
  • sullied
  • svelte
  • switched-on
  • tainted
  • tangled
  • tempered
  • thinned
  • tough
  • tranquil
  • unctuous
  • undisturbed
  • unfathomable
  • unintelligible
  • unperturbed
  • uptown
  • urbane
  • varied
  • watered down
  • weakened
  • well-bred
  • wise to
  • wised-up
  • with it
  • world-weary
  • worldly
  • worldly-wise

gamesome

  • active
  • airy
  • amusing
  • animate
  • animated
  • antic
  • audacious
  • blithe
  • blithesome
  • boisterous
  • bold
  • boon
  • bouncy
  • brash
  • brazen
  • breezy
  • bubbly
  • buoyant
  • carefree
  • careless
  • cheerful
  • cheery
  • chipper
  • chirpy
  • clowning
  • cocky
  • coltish
  • comical
  • confident
  • considerate
  • convivial
  • crank
  • dapper
  • dashing
  • debonair
  • devil-may-care
  • devilish
  • easy
  • ecstatic
  • effervescent
  • elvish
  • euphoric
  • exhilarated
  • extraverted
  • extroverted
  • exuberant
  • fair
  • festive
  • flip
  • flippant
  • flirtatious
  • forward
  • free
  • fresh
  • frisky
  • frivolous
  • frolic
  • frolicsome
  • full of beans
  • full of fun
  • full of pep
  • fun
  • fun-loving
  • funny
  • game
  • gay
  • generous
  • gentlemanly
  • giddy
  • glad
  • gleeful
  • good-natured
  • happy
  • happy-go-lucky
  • high-spirited
  • hilarious
  • humorous
  • impertinent
  • impetuous
  • impish
  • impudent
  • in high spirits
  • insolent
  • insouciant
  • jaunty
  • jesting
  • jocose
  • jocular
  • jocund
  • joking
  • jolly
  • jovial
  • joyful
  • joyous
  • jumpy
  • keen
  • kittenish
  • larkish
  • light
  • light-headed
  • lighthearted
  • lively
  • lyric
  • merry
  • mirthful
  • mischievous
  • natty
  • nervy
  • outgoing
  • overexuberant
  • peppy
  • perky
  • playful
  • pleasure-seeking
  • prankish
  • presuming
  • provocative
  • puckish
  • pushy
  • rapturous
  • raucous
  • reasonable
  • reckless
  • roguish
  • rollicking
  • romping
  • rowdy
  • saucy
  • self-assertive
  • self-confident
  • showy
  • silly
  • smart
  • snappy
  • sparkling
  • spirited
  • sportive
  • sportsmanlike
  • sportsmanly
  • sportspersonlike
  • sporty
  • sprightly
  • spruce
  • square
  • square dealing
  • square-shooting
  • straight shooting
  • sunny
  • swaggering
  • teasing
  • tongue-in-cheek
  • trim
  • uninhibited
  • venturesome
  • vivacious
  • waggish
  • wanton
  • whimsical
  • wicked
  • wild
  • witty
  • zesty
  • zippy

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