debonair

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
11
Words With Friends
13
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/dɛbəˈneə(ɹ)/ (UK)
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/dɛbəˈneə(ɹ)/ (UK) · /dɛbəˈnɛɹ/ (US)

Definition of debonair

4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (obsolete)Gracious, courteous.
    “Let be that Ladie debonaire, / Thou recreant knight, and soone thy selfe prepaire / To battell […].”
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adj

  1. (obsolete)Gracious, courteous.
    “Let be that Ladie debonaire, / Thou recreant knight, and soone thy selfe prepaire / To battell […].”
  2. Suave, urbane and sophisticated.
    ““He's doing it wrong! I am much more suave, debonair, and sophisticated than that!” “Yes, Dan, that's a very debonair stain you have on your shirt.” “I'll have you know I have sophistication coming out the wazoo!””
    “She was a New York City person. Sacco is nervy and sassy and sort of debonair.”
  3. (especially)Charming, confident, and carefully dressed.
    “The hard launch of what appeared to be the hottest new relationship in town – Billanna? Winty? – at the 2023 Met Gala saw Vogue supremo Wintour, who has hosted the Met Gala for 30 years, walk the red carpet arm in arm with the dashing and debonair Love Actually star, a man Clive James named “the nation’s leading male sexpot”.”

noun

  1. (obsolete)Debonaire behaviour; graciousness.
    “But yet, shall my vanity extend only to personals, such as the gracefulness of dress, my debonnaire, and my assurance—Self-taught, self-acquired, these!”

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Etymology

Via Middle English debonaire from Old French de bon aire (“of good stock; noble”).

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