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DANDIFIED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dandified mean? 

DANDIFIED (adjective)
  The adjective DANDIFIED has 1 sense:

1. affecting extreme elegance in dress and mannerplay

  Familiarity information: DANDIFIED used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


DANDIFIED (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Affecting extreme elegance in dress and manner

Synonyms:

dandified; dandyish; foppish

Similar:

elegant (refined and tasteful in appearance or behavior or style)


 Context examples 


Being only 'a glorious human boy', of course he frolicked and flirted, grew dandified, aquatic, sentimental, or gymnastic, as college fashions ordained, hazed and was hazed, talked slang, and more than once came perilously near suspension and expulsion.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)



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