raffish
8 synonyms and 3 antonyms for raffish, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.
Adj — Marked by a casual disregard for convention; rakish.
Synonyms
Less common
Still standard English, but they carry more weight.
Rare, literary or technical
Precise, but they will stand out — check the sense before using one.
Antonyms
Etymology
Comes from the late 18th-century word raff (“persons among the lowest class in society”) plus -ish, a sense still kept today in riffraff. Raff itself comes from Old French raffer (“to wear away”), which is of Germanic origin; compare German raffen, and compare also rip (“to tear”) and rap (“to snatch”).
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