debonair

The word “debonair” has 3 syllables: de-bon-air

It's pronounced as /ˌdɛbənˈɛər/


What is synonym and antonym for debonair?

In the thesaurus, “debonair” has 79 synonyms and 60 antonyms.

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


Synonyms for debonair

  • affable
  • amiable
  • appealing
  • assured
  • attractive
  • blase
  • blithe
  • breezy
  • buoyant
  • calm
  • carefree
  • casual
  • cavalier
  • cheerful
  • civilized
  • collected
  • composed
  • confident
  • cool
  • cosmopolitan
  • courteous
  • couth
  • cultivated
  • cultured
  • dashing
  • detached
  • devil-may-care
  • easygoing
  • experienced
  • gay
  • genteel
  • glib
  • graceful
  • gracious
  • happy
  • happy-go-lucky
  • informal
  • insouciant
  • jaunty
  • knowing
  • laid-back
  • lighthearted
  • lightsome
  • low-pressure
  • metro
  • metropolitan
  • nonchalant
  • placid
  • pleasant
  • poised
  • polished
  • practiced
  • practised
  • refined
  • relaxed
  • schooled
  • seasoned
  • secure
  • self-assured
  • self-confident
  • self-possessed
  • serene
  • slaphappy
  • slick
  • smart
  • smooth
  • sophisticated
  • sprightly
  • suave
  • svelte
  • tranquil
  • unconcerned
  • unctuous
  • undisturbed
  • unfussy
  • unperturbed
  • urbane
  • well-bred
  • worldly-wise

Antonyms for debonair

  • anxious
  • awkward
  • boorish
  • callow
  • careful
  • careworn
  • cautious
  • churlish
  • classless
  • clownish
  • clumsy
  • concerned
  • diffident
  • earnest
  • gauche
  • gawky
  • graceless
  • grave
  • green
  • heedful
  • hick
  • inelegant
  • inexperienced
  • insecure
  • long-suffering
  • loutish
  • lubberly
  • overburdened
  • parochial
  • philistine
  • provincial
  • puerile
  • raw
  • rough-hewn
  • rustic
  • rustical
  • serious
  • serious-minded
  • somber
  • sombre
  • sorrowful
  • stiff
  • stilted
  • stodgy
  • uncharming
  • uncivilized
  • uncomfortable
  • uncouth
  • uncultured
  • undebonair
  • uneasy
  • ungainly
  • ungraceful
  • unrefined
  • unsophisticated
  • unworldly
  • upset
  • wary
  • wooden
  • worried

Meanings of debonair

  • noun
    1. Debonaire behaviour; graciousness.
  • adjective
    1. Gracious, courteous.
    2. Suave, urbane and sophisticated.
    3. (especially of men) Charming, confident and carefully dressed.

Example Sentences

  • His debonair charm made him the center of attention at every social event.
  • The actor played a debonair spy in the film, captivating audiences with his suave demeanor.
  • She admired his debonair style and effortless grace during their dinner date.
  • The debonair gentleman was known for his impeccable fashion sense and polished manners.
  • Despite the chaos around him, he maintained a debonair composure that impressed everyone.

On this page you'll find 139 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to debonair, such as: affable, amiable, anxious, appealing, assured, attractive, awkward.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

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  • absurd
  • accelerating
  • adventuresome
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  • debonair
  • dejecting
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  • elegant
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  • foolhardy
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  • gadarene
  • gallant
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  • gay
  • getting a move on
  • getting down
  • greathearted
  • gritty
  • gunning
  • gutsy
  • half-witted
  • hardy
  • harebrained
  • haring
  • hastening
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  • headlong
  • heaving
  • heedless
  • heroic
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  • hieing
  • highballing
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  • hotheaded
  • humping
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  • hying
  • idiotic
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  • impelling
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  • impregnating
  • imprudent
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  • jaunty
  • jetting
  • jogging
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  • lapping
  • launching
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  • lionhearted
  • lively
  • lobbing
  • lofting
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  • lunatic
  • mad
  • madcap
  • making tracks
  • modish
  • moronic
  • motoring
  • nerved
  • nervy
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  • nutty
  • oppressing
  • outpacing
  • outrunning
  • outstripping
  • overbold
  • overconfident
  • overtaking
  • passing
  • pattering
  • pegging
  • pelting
  • perturbing
  • pitching
  • plashing
  • plucky
  • precipitate
  • precipitating
  • projecting
  • propelling
  • quickening
  • racing
  • ramming
  • rash
  • reckless
  • rifling
  • ripping
  • rocketing
  • rolling
  • rousing
  • running
  • rushing
  • rustling
  • saddening
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  • scampering
  • scatterbrained
  • scooting
  • scudding
  • scuffling
  • scurrying
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  • shagging
  • shaking a leg
  • shooting
  • showy
  • silly
  • skipping
  • slinging
  • slopping
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  • smart
  • soaking
  • sopping
  • sousing
  • spattering
  • speeding
  • spirited
  • splashing
  • splattering
  • sporty
  • spraying
  • springing
  • sprinkling
  • sprinting
  • spritzing
  • spunky
  • squirting
  • stalwart
  • stampeding
  • steeping
  • stepping
  • stepping on it
  • stepping out
  • stout
  • stouthearted
  • streaking
  • stupid
  • stylish
  • swank
  • swashbuckling
  • swashing
  • swish
  • tearing
  • thoughtless
  • throwing
  • thrusting
  • tormenting
  • torturing
  • tossing
  • traveling
  • travelling
  • tripping
  • trotting
  • troubling
  • unafraid
  • undaunted
  • undoing
  • unhinging
  • unnecessary
  • unnerving
  • unreasonable
  • unsettling
  • upsetting
  • valiant
  • valorous
  • venturesome
  • venturous
  • vivacious
  • wacky
  • washing
  • watering
  • weighing down
  • whacky
  • whirling
  • whisking
  • whizzing
  • wild
  • witless
  • worrying
  • zipping
  • zooming

gamesome

  • active
  • airy
  • amusing
  • animate
  • animated
  • antic
  • audacious
  • blithe
  • blithesome
  • boisterous
  • bold
  • boon
  • bouncy
  • brash
  • brazen
  • breezy
  • bubbly
  • buoyant
  • carefree
  • careless
  • cheerful
  • cheery
  • chipper
  • chirpy
  • clowning
  • cocky
  • coltish
  • comical
  • confident
  • considerate
  • convivial
  • crank
  • dapper
  • dashing
  • debonair
  • devil-may-care
  • devilish
  • easy
  • ecstatic
  • effervescent
  • elvish
  • euphoric
  • exhilarated
  • extraverted
  • extroverted
  • exuberant
  • fair
  • festive
  • flip
  • flippant
  • flirtatious
  • forward
  • free
  • fresh
  • frisky
  • frivolous
  • frolic
  • frolicsome
  • full of beans
  • full of fun
  • full of pep
  • fun
  • fun-loving
  • funny
  • game
  • gay
  • generous
  • gentlemanly
  • giddy
  • glad
  • gleeful
  • good-natured
  • happy
  • happy-go-lucky
  • high-spirited
  • hilarious
  • humorous
  • impertinent
  • impetuous
  • impish
  • impudent
  • in high spirits
  • insolent
  • insouciant
  • jaunty
  • jesting
  • jocose
  • jocular
  • jocund
  • joking
  • jolly
  • jovial
  • joyful
  • joyous
  • jumpy
  • keen
  • kittenish
  • larkish
  • light
  • light-headed
  • lighthearted
  • lively
  • lyric
  • merry
  • mirthful
  • mischievous
  • natty
  • nervy
  • outgoing
  • overexuberant
  • peppy
  • perky
  • playful
  • pleasure-seeking
  • prankish
  • presuming
  • provocative
  • puckish
  • pushy
  • rapturous
  • raucous
  • reasonable
  • reckless
  • roguish
  • rollicking
  • romping
  • rowdy
  • saucy
  • self-assertive
  • self-confident
  • showy
  • silly
  • smart
  • snappy
  • sparkling
  • spirited
  • sportive
  • sportsmanlike
  • sportsmanly
  • sportspersonlike
  • sporty
  • sprightly
  • spruce
  • square
  • square dealing
  • square-shooting
  • straight shooting
  • sunny
  • swaggering
  • teasing
  • tongue-in-cheek
  • trim
  • uninhibited
  • venturesome
  • vivacious
  • waggish
  • wanton
  • whimsical
  • wicked
  • wild
  • witty
  • zesty
  • zippy

jaunty

  • active
  • agile
  • agog
  • airy
  • alert
  • animate
  • animated
  • awake
  • boisterous
  • bold
  • bouncing
  • brash
  • breezy
  • bright
  • brisk
  • bubbly
  • buoyant
  • carefree
  • careless
  • cheerful
  • chipper
  • chirpy
  • chirrupy
  • cocky
  • dapper
  • dashing
  • debonair
  • devil-may-care
  • devilish
  • eager
  • easy
  • ebullient
  • effervescent
  • energetic
  • enthusiastic
  • exhilarated
  • exuberant
  • flip
  • flippant
  • forward
  • free
  • fresh
  • frisky
  • frolicsome
  • gamesome
  • gay
  • high-spirited
  • high-strung
  • hilarious
  • impetuous
  • impish
  • impudent
  • jazzy
  • jocose
  • joking
  • jolly
  • jovial
  • keen
  • kinetic
  • light
  • lively
  • mettlesome
  • natty
  • nervous
  • nervy
  • nimble
  • on the go
  • open-eyed
  • peppy
  • perky
  • pert
  • pixieish
  • pizazzy
  • pizzazzy
  • playful
  • prankish
  • provocative
  • racy
  • reckless
  • rollicking
  • self-confident
  • showy
  • skittish
  • smart
  • snappy
  • spanking
  • sparkly
  • sparky
  • spiffy
  • spirited
  • sportive
  • sporty
  • sprightly
  • springy
  • spruce
  • spry
  • swaggering
  • trim
  • up
  • upbeat
  • venturesome
  • vital
  • vivacious
  • wide-awake
  • zippy

sophisticated

  • Byzantine
  • Kafkaesque
  • adult
  • adulterated
  • amiable
  • appealing
  • artificial
  • assured
  • attenuated
  • attractive
  • baroque
  • been around
  • befouled
  • bored
  • byzantine
  • calm
  • cavalier
  • challenging
  • cheapened
  • chichi
  • citified
  • civilized
  • collected
  • complex
  • complexed
  • complexified
  • complicate
  • complicated
  • composed
  • composite
  • compound
  • confident
  • confounded
  • confused
  • contaminated
  • convoluted
  • cool
  • corrupted
  • cosmopolitan
  • counterfeited
  • couth
  • cultivated
  • cultured
  • cut
  • cynical
  • daedal
  • debased
  • debonair
  • defiled
  • degraded
  • delicate
  • detailed
  • developed
  • difficult
  • diluted
  • dirtied
  • disenchanted
  • disillusioned
  • doctored
  • down-to-earth
  • elaborate
  • elaborated
  • elegant
  • embarrassed
  • entangled
  • envenomed
  • expanded
  • experienced
  • exquisite
  • extended
  • extravagant
  • exuberant
  • faked
  • falsified
  • fancified
  • fancy
  • flamboyant
  • fouled
  • frilly
  • fudged
  • genteel
  • glib
  • graceful
  • gracious
  • grand
  • grandiose
  • heterogeneous
  • highly developed
  • impenetrable
  • in
  • in the know
  • incomprehensible
  • inexplicable
  • infected
  • intensified
  • into
  • intricate
  • involute
  • involuted
  • involved
  • jaded
  • jet-set
  • knotty
  • knowing
  • labyrinthian
  • labyrinthine
  • laced
  • laid-back
  • loaded
  • magnificent
  • magnified
  • manipulated
  • mature
  • metro
  • metropolitan
  • misrepresented
  • mixed
  • moderated
  • modern
  • mondaine
  • muddled
  • multibranched
  • multifaceted
  • multifarious
  • multipart
  • on to
  • ornate
  • ostentatious
  • overcomplex
  • overcomplicated
  • overwrought
  • perplexed
  • placid
  • poised
  • poisoned
  • polished
  • polluted
  • practical
  • practiced
  • practised
  • pragmatic
  • pragmatical
  • qualified
  • realistic
  • refined
  • schooled
  • seasoned
  • secure
  • self-assured
  • self-confident
  • self-possessed
  • serene
  • sharp
  • showy
  • skeptical
  • slick
  • smart
  • smooth
  • snarled
  • sober
  • soiled
  • souped-up
  • spiked
  • splendid
  • spoiled
  • spoilt
  • stagy
  • streetwise
  • studied
  • suave
  • subtle
  • sullied
  • svelte
  • switched-on
  • tainted
  • tangled
  • tempered
  • thinned
  • tough
  • tranquil
  • unctuous
  • undisturbed
  • unfathomable
  • unintelligible
  • unperturbed
  • uptown
  • urbane
  • varied
  • watered down
  • weakened
  • well-bred
  • wise to
  • wised-up
  • with it
  • world-weary
  • worldly
  • worldly-wise

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