rakish

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: rak=ish

CIDE DICTIONARY

rakish, a. 

 Dissolute; lewd; debauched.  [1913 Webster]
"The arduous task of converting a rakish lover."  [1913 Webster]

rakish, a. 

 Having a saucy appearance indicative of speed and dash.  Ham. Nav. Encyc.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

rakish, adj. of or like a rake (see RAKE(2)); dashing; jaunty.

Derivative

rakishly adv. rakishness n.

rakish, adj. (of a ship) smart and fast-looking, seemingly built for speed and therefore open to suspicion of piracy.

Etymology

RAKE(3), assoc. with RAKE(2)

THESAURUS

rakish

abandoned, brave, bravura, braw, breezy, chic, chichi, dandy, dapper, daring, dashing, debauched, debonair, devil-may-care, dissipated, dissolute, dressy, elegant, exhibitionistic, fashionable, fast, flashing, flashy, flaunting, foppish, free, frilly, frothy, gallant, gay, glittering, jaunty, jazzy, licentious, profligate, raffish, rakehell, rakehellish, rakehelly, showy, smart, snazzy, splashy, splurgy, sporty, spruce, unbridled, wild

ROGET THESAURUS

rakish

Impurity

N impurity, uncleanness, immodesty, grossness, indelicacy, indecency, impudicity, obscenity, ribaldry, Fescennine, smut, bawdry, double entente, equivoque, concupiscence, lust, carnality, flesh, salacity, pruriency, lechery, lasciviency, lubricity, Sadism, sapphism, incontinence, intrigue, faux pas, amour, amourette, gallantry, debauchery, libertinish, libertinage, fornication, liaison, wenching, venery, dissipation, seduction, defloration, defilement, abuse, violation, rape, incest, prostitution, social evil, harlotry, stupration, whoredom, concubinage, cuckoldom, adultery, advoutry, crim, con, free love, seraglio, harem, brothel, bagnio, stew, bawdyhouse, cat house, lupanar, house of ill fame, bordel, bordello, impure, unclean, not to be mentioned to ears polite, immodest, shameless, indecorous, indelicate, indecent, Fescennine, loose, risque, coarse, gross, broad, free, equivocal, smutty, fulsome, ribald, obscene, bawdy, pornographic, concupiscent, prurient, lickerish, rampant, lustful, carnal, carnal-minded, lewd, lascivious, lecherous, libidinous, erotic, ruttish, salacious, Paphian, voluptuous, goatish, must, musty, 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, adulterous, incestuous, bestial.

Intemperance

N intemperance, sensuality, animalism, carnality, tragalism, pleasure, effeminacy, silkiness, luxury, luxuriousness, lap of pleasure, lap of luxury, free living, indulgence, high living, wild living, inabstinence, self- indulgence, voluptuousness, epicurism, epicureanism, sybaritism, drug habit, dissipation, licentiousness, debauchery, crapulence, revels, revelry, debauch, carousal, jollification, drinking bout, wassail, saturnalia, orgies, excess, too much, Circean cup, bhang, hashish, marijuana, pot, hemp, grass, opium, cocaine, morphine, heroin, LSD, lysergic acid diethylamide, phencyclidine, angel dust, PCP, barbiturates, amphetamines, speed, intemperate, inabstinent, sensual, self-indulgent, voluptuous, luxurious, licentious, wild, dissolute, rakish, fast, debauched, brutish, crapulous, swinish, piggish, Paphian, Epicurean, Sybaritical, bred in the lap of luxury, nursed in the lap of luxury, indulged, pampered, full-fed, high-fed, being full of supper and distempering draughts.