1. Lively and spirited
   "a dashing hero";
   - gallant
    
2. Marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners
   "a dashing young man";
   - dapper, jaunty, natty [informal], raffish, rakish, spiffy [N. Amer, informal], snappy [informal], spruce, pert

1. Run or move very quickly or hastily
   "She dashed into the yard";
   - dart, scoot [informal], scud, flash, shoot, whip [informal]
    
2. Hurl or thrust violently
   "Waves were dashing against the rock"; "He dashed the plate against the wall";
   - crash
    
3. Break into pieces, as by striking or knocking over
   "dash a plate";
   - smash
    
4. Destroy or frustrate hopes, expectations, or plans
   "dashed ambitions and hopes"
    
5. Add an enlivening or altering element to
   "blue paint dashed with white"

See also: fashionable, hip [informal], spirited, stylish

Type of: baffle, barrel [informal], belt [informal], belt along [informal], bilk [informal], break, bucket [informal], bucket along [informal], cast, cross, foil, frustrate, hasten, hie [archaic], hotfoot, hurl, hurry, hurtle, mix, mix in, pelt [informal], pelt along [informal], queer [informal], race, rocket [informal], rush, rush along, scotch, scupper [informal], speed, spoil, step on it [informal], thwart, travel rapidly, whizz [informal], whizz along [informal], wing [informal], zip [informal], zoom, zoom along [informal]

Encyclopedia: Dash, Mike