Meaning

2 senses
  1. Made up of short lines with small gaps between each one and the next.

  2. (UK, dated, euphemistic, informal)Damned.

    It's a dashed shame that Tarquin failed all his A-levels — we were hoping to get him into Oxford.

More definitions
  • having gaps or spaces

Forms

more dashed, most dashed
Comparativemore dashed Lesson
Superlativemost dashed Lesson

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
damned:darned
Close in meaning

Word family

4 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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