dapper.

Neat and smart in dress or appearance.

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Words that belong together

• dapper suit
• dapper gentleman

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The dapper clerk brushed dust from his cuffs.

He arrived looking dapper despite the rain.

Usage notes

Primary category: literary. Forms: Comparative more dapper; superlative most dapper where gradation is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.