rakish

The word “rakish” has 1 syllable: rakish

It's pronounced as /ˈreɪkɪʃ/


What is synonym and antonym for rakish?

In the thesaurus, “rakish” has 61 synonyms and 13 antonyms.

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


Synonyms for rakish

Antonyms for rakish

  • clean
  • ethical
  • good
  • honest
  • incorruptible
  • moral
  • principled
  • pure
  • righteous
  • uncorrupt
  • uncorrupted
  • upright
  • virtuous

Meanings of rakish

  • adjective
    1. Dashingly, carelessly, or sportingly unconventional or stylish; jaunty; characterized by a devil-may-care unconventionality; having a somewhat disreputable quality or appearance.
    2. Like a rake; dissolute; profligate.

Example Sentences

  • His rakish charm won over the crowd at the party.
  • The actor portrayed the character with a rakish grin and confident demeanor.
  • She admired his rakish style, complete with a jaunty hat and tailored suit.
  • Despite his rakish appearance, he possessed a sharp intellect and wit.
  • The novel's protagonist was known for his rakish behavior and adventurous spirit.

On this page you'll find 74 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to rakish, such as: abandoned, bad, bent, chic, clean, contaminated, corrupt.

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abjection

  • abasement
  • abjectness
  • affliction
  • agony
  • anguish
  • aridity
  • avarice
  • bankruptcy
  • barrenness
  • baseness
  • beastliness
  • beggary
  • blahs
  • bleakness
  • blue funk
  • bummer
  • cheerlessness
  • churlishness
  • closeness
  • contemptibleness
  • corruption
  • corruptness
  • covetousness
  • dearth
  • debasement
  • debauchery
  • debt
  • decadence
  • decadency
  • deficiency
  • deficit
  • degeneracy
  • degenerateness
  • degeneration
  • degradation
  • dejection
  • demoralization
  • depletion
  • depravity
  • depression
  • desolation
  • despair
  • desperation
  • despondency
  • destitution
  • difficulty
  • discomfort
  • disconsolation
  • discontent
  • discouragement
  • dispiritedness
  • disrepute
  • dissipatedness
  • dissipation
  • dissoluteness
  • distress
  • dole
  • dolefulness
  • dolor
  • downheartedness
  • dreariness
  • dullness
  • dumps
  • emptiness
  • ennui
  • evil
  • exiguity
  • famine
  • filth
  • frugality
  • gangrene
  • gloom
  • gloominess
  • greed
  • grief
  • hardship
  • heaviness of heart
  • heavyheartedness
  • hopelessness
  • ill temper
  • immorality
  • impecuniosity
  • impecuniousness
  • impoverishment
  • inadequacy
  • indigence
  • infamy
  • iniquity
  • insolvency
  • insufficiency
  • knavishness
  • lack
  • libertinage
  • libertinism
  • lowness
  • lugubriosity
  • malice
  • malignity
  • meagerness
  • melancholia
  • melancholy
  • miserliness
  • misery
  • mortification
  • necessitousness
  • necessity
  • need
  • neediness
  • pain
  • parsimony
  • pass
  • paucity
  • pauperism
  • pennilessness
  • penuriousness
  • penury
  • perversion
  • pervertedness
  • pettiness
  • pinch
  • poorness
  • privation
  • qualm
  • rakishness
  • rapacity
  • reduction
  • rot
  • sadness
  • scarcity
  • shamelessness
  • shortage
  • sinfulness
  • smallmindedness
  • sordidness
  • sorrow
  • squalor
  • starvation
  • stinginess
  • straits
  • suffering
  • the blues
  • torment
  • trouble
  • turpitude
  • underdevelopment
  • unhappiness
  • unkindness
  • unscrupulousness
  • unworthiness
  • vacancy
  • vapors
  • villainy
  • want
  • wickedness
  • woe
  • woefulness
  • worry

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cool

  • A-OK
  • A1
  • OK
  • a la mode
  • abate
  • acceptable
  • adequate
  • affable
  • air-condition
  • air-conditioned
  • air-cool
  • algid
  • all right
  • allay
  • aloof
  • annoyed
  • antiseptic
  • antisocial
  • apathetic
  • apathy
  • aplomb
  • arctic
  • artfulness
  • asocial
  • assuage
  • assurance
  • assured
  • at peace
  • au courant
  • awesome
  • balance
  • bang-up
  • banner
  • beautiful
  • better
  • biting
  • bitter
  • bloodless
  • blue-chip
  • blue-ribbon
  • boffo
  • bone-chilling
  • bonnie
  • bonny
  • boss
  • bovine
  • bracing
  • brag
  • brave
  • breezy
  • brisk
  • brittle
  • bully
  • bumper
  • buttoned-up
  • calm
  • calm down
  • calmness
  • capital
  • carefree
  • centered
  • chic
  • chichi
  • chicness
  • chill
  • chill out
  • chilled
  • chilling
  • chilly
  • choice
  • clammy
  • class
  • classic
  • classical
  • classy
  • clinical
  • cliquey
  • cliquish
  • clubbish
  • cold
  • cold-blooded
  • cold-eyed
  • coldhearted
  • coldish
  • coldness
  • collected
  • collectedness
  • compose
  • composed
  • composedness
  • composure
  • confidence
  • confident
  • control
  • cool down
  • cool it
  • cooled
  • coolheaded
  • coolish
  • coolness
  • corking
  • countenance
  • crackerjack
  • cracking
  • crisp
  • cryogenic
  • cutting
  • dampen
  • dandy
  • dandyish
  • dapper
  • dapperness
  • dashing
  • decent
  • def
  • deliberate
  • detached
  • detachment
  • devil-may-care
  • diffident
  • disciplined
  • disinterest
  • disinterested
  • disinterestedness
  • dispassion
  • dispassionate
  • dispassionateness
  • distant
  • divine
  • doggish
  • doggy
  • dope
  • down
  • downtown
  • dressy
  • dry
  • dry up
  • dudish
  • dynamite
  • easygoing
  • easygoingness
  • edgy
  • elegance
  • elegant
  • equable
  • equal
  • equanimity
  • equilibrium
  • equitability
  • equitableness
  • even
  • even-keeled
  • excellent
  • exceptional
  • exclusive
  • fab
  • fabulous
  • fairness
  • famous
  • fancy
  • fantabulous
  • fantastic
  • fashionable
  • fashionableness
  • fine
  • first-class
  • first-rate
  • first-string
  • five-star
  • flashy
  • flossy
  • foppish
  • four-star
  • freeze
  • freezing
  • fresh
  • frigid
  • frontline
  • frore
  • frost
  • frosted
  • frosty
  • frozen
  • funky
  • gallant
  • gangbuster
  • gangbusters
  • gelid
  • gilt-edge
  • gilt-edged
  • glacial
  • gone
  • good
  • grace
  • graceful
  • gracefulness
  • grand
  • great
  • groovy
  • handsome
  • happening
  • happy-go-lucky
  • hard
  • hard-eyed
  • hard-hearted
  • haut
  • haute
  • heartless
  • heavenly
  • hep
  • high-class
  • high-grade
  • high-test
  • hip
  • hipness
  • hipsterism
  • hot
  • hunky-dory
  • hush
  • hype
  • ice
  • ice-cold
  • iced
  • icy
  • immense
  • impartiality
  • impassive
  • impassivity
  • impersonal
  • imperturbability
  • imperturbable
  • in
  • incurious
  • indifference
  • indifferent
  • indrawn
  • infrigidate
  • insensibility
  • introverted
  • invigorating
  • jim-dandy
  • keen
  • kicky
  • kindless
  • laid-back
  • laid-backness
  • lessen
  • level
  • levelheaded
  • limpid
  • loosey-goosey
  • lose heat
  • lovely
  • lukewarm
  • majestic
  • majesty
  • marvellous
  • marvelous
  • mean
  • mellow
  • misanthropic
  • mitigate
  • mod
  • moderate
  • modish
  • modishness
  • natty
  • neat
  • nerveless
  • nifty
  • nipping
  • nippy
  • nobby
  • noble
  • nonchalant
  • nongregarious
  • nonpartisanship
  • now
  • number one
  • numbing
  • numbness
  • numero uno
  • objectivity
  • offended
  • offhand
  • offish
  • okay
  • out of this world
  • out-of-sight
  • par excellence
  • passable
  • peace
  • peaceful
  • peacefulness
  • peachy
  • peachy keen
  • penetrating
  • phat
  • philosophical
  • phlegm
  • phlegmatic
  • piercing
  • pipe down
  • pitiless
  • placid
  • placidity
  • poise
  • polar
  • polish
  • posh
  • poshness
  • possessed
  • premium
  • prime
  • primo
  • prize
  • prizewinning
  • procacious
  • professional
  • quality
  • quick-freeze
  • quiet
  • quiet down
  • quietness
  • quietude
  • radical
  • rakish
  • rationality
  • rationalness
  • reasonability
  • reasonableness
  • recessive
  • reclusive
  • recollected
  • reduce
  • refined
  • refreshing
  • refrigerate
  • refrigerated
  • rein in
  • relax
  • relaxed
  • relieved
  • remote
  • repose
  • repress
  • reserve
  • reserved
  • restfulness
  • restrain
  • reticent
  • righteous
  • rigorous
  • ritzy
  • sangfroid
  • sassy
  • satisfactory
  • saucy
  • sedate
  • select
  • self-assurance
  • self-assured
  • self-assuredness
  • self-composed
  • self-composedness
  • self-confidence
  • self-contained
  • self-controlled
  • self-possessed
  • self-possession
  • self-trust
  • sensational
  • serene
  • sereneness
  • serenity
  • settle down
  • sharp
  • shivery
  • shy
  • silent
  • simmer down
  • slick
  • smart
  • smartness
  • smooth
  • snappy
  • sober
  • solitary
  • sophisticated
  • sophistication
  • soulless
  • special
  • spiffy
  • splendid
  • spruce
  • standard
  • standoff
  • standoffish
  • stateliness
  • stately
  • steady
  • stellar
  • sterling
  • stolid
  • style
  • stylish
  • stylishness
  • subfreezing
  • subzero
  • superb
  • supercool
  • superfine
  • superior
  • superlative
  • supernal
  • suppress
  • swank
  • swankiness
  • swanky
  • swell
  • swish
  • taciturn
  • taste
  • tasteful
  • tastefulness
  • temper
  • terrific
  • timid
  • tip-top
  • together
  • tolerable
  • too much
  • top
  • top-notch
  • top-of-the-line
  • top-shelf
  • topflight
  • topping
  • traditional
  • tranquil
  • tranquility
  • tranquilize
  • tranquilized
  • tranquillity
  • tranquillize
  • tranquillized
  • tranquilness
  • trendiness
  • trendy
  • turned-on
  • ultrachic
  • ultracold
  • ultracool
  • ultrahip
  • ultraposh
  • ultrasmart
  • ultrasophisticated
  • unagitated
  • unapproachable
  • unbending
  • unbiasedness
  • uncaring
  • unclubbable
  • uncommunicative
  • unconcern
  • unconcerned
  • uncordial
  • undemonstrative
  • undemonstrativeness
  • understated
  • undisturbed
  • unemotional
  • unenthusiastic
  • unexcited
  • unfeeling
  • unflappable
  • unfriendly
  • unheated
  • uninterested
  • unperturbed
  • unresponsive
  • unresponsiveness
  • unruffled
  • unshakable
  • unshaken
  • unsociable
  • unsocial
  • unsurpassed
  • unsympathetic
  • untroubled
  • unwelcoming
  • unwind
  • unworried
  • ventilate
  • voguish
  • voguishness
  • well-adjusted
  • well-balanced
  • wintery
  • wintry
  • with-it
  • withdrawn
  • wizard
  • wonderful
  • zone out

dapper

  • a la mode
  • bandbox
  • brisk
  • careful
  • chic
  • chichi
  • classy
  • clean
  • combed
  • dainty
  • dashing
  • doggy
  • dolled up
  • dressed to kill
  • dressed to nines
  • dressy
  • elegant
  • fashionable
  • fastidious
  • formal
  • fussy
  • groomed
  • immaculate
  • in
  • jaunty
  • meticulous
  • modish
  • natty
  • nice
  • nifty
  • nimble
  • nobby
  • orderly
  • posh
  • prim
  • pristine
  • rakish
  • ritzy
  • sassy
  • sharp
  • showy
  • smart
  • snappy
  • snazzy
  • snug
  • spiffed-up
  • spiffy
  • spotless
  • spruce
  • spry
  • squeaky-clean
  • stylish
  • swank
  • swanky
  • swell
  • tidy
  • trim
  • turned out
  • well-turned-out

debased

  • abased
  • abashed
  • affronted
  • bad
  • bad-mouthed
  • base
  • bastardized
  • befouled
  • begrimed
  • belittled
  • bent
  • blemished
  • cankered
  • castigated
  • censured
  • chastened
  • cheapened
  • condemned
  • confounded
  • confused
  • contaminated
  • corrupt
  • corrupted
  • cried down
  • criticized
  • crooked
  • cutthroat
  • damaged
  • damned
  • debauched
  • decadent
  • decried
  • defaced
  • defamed
  • defiled
  • degenerate
  • degraded
  • demeaned
  • demoralized
  • denounced
  • depraved
  • depreciated
  • descended
  • destroyed
  • deteriorated
  • detracted
  • diluted
  • diminished
  • dirtied
  • discomfited
  • disconcerted
  • discounted
  • discountenanced
  • discredited
  • disgraced
  • dishonest
  • dishonored
  • disparaged
  • dissipated
  • dissolute
  • downgraded
  • embarrassed
  • evil
  • execrated
  • fazed
  • flawed
  • flustered
  • fouled
  • harmed
  • humbled
  • humiliated
  • hurt
  • immoral
  • impaired
  • iniquitous
  • insulted
  • jackleg
  • lessened
  • libeled
  • libelled
  • libertine
  • loose
  • lowered
  • maligned
  • marred
  • minimized
  • miscreant
  • mortified
  • nefarious
  • nonplused
  • nonplussed
  • perverse
  • perverted
  • poisoned
  • polluted
  • profaned
  • prostituted
  • put down
  • rakehell
  • rakehelly
  • rakish
  • rattled
  • reprehended
  • reprobate
  • reprobated
  • ridiculed
  • ruined
  • sank
  • shamed
  • sick
  • sinful
  • slandered
  • smirched
  • spoiled
  • spoilt
  • stained
  • subverted
  • sunk
  • tainted
  • tarnished
  • thinned
  • took down
  • unclean
  • unethical
  • unprincipled
  • unscrupulous
  • unwholesome
  • vicious
  • vitiated
  • warped
  • watered down
  • weakened
  • wicked
  • wrecked
  • wrote off

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