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Thesaurus: dapper

Little and active; spruce; trim; smart; neat in dress or appearance; lively.

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  1. a. Little and active; spruce; trim; smart; neat in dress or appearance; lively.
  2. adj. marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners
  3. Little and active; spruce; trim; smart; neat in dress or appearance; lively. He wondered how so many provinces could be held in subjection by such a dapper little man. Milton. The dapper ditties that I wont devise. Spenser. Sharp-nosed, dapper steam yachts. Julian Hawthorne.
  4. Little and active; spruce; trim; smart; neat in dress orappearance; lively.He wondered how so many provinces could be held in subjection by sucha dapper little man. Milton.The dapper ditties that I wont devise. Spenser.Sharp-nosed, dapper steam yachts. Julian Hawthorne.
  5. j:100 s. marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners