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What is the adjective for dandy?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs dandify and dandyize which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

dandy
  1. Like a dandy, foppish.
  2. Very good; better than expected but not as good as could be.
  3. Excellent; first-rate.
  4. Synonyms:
      5. excellent, superb, first-class, first-rate, marvellous, splendid, wonderful, fine, great, superior, superlative, terrific, cool, exceptional, magnificent, outstanding, perfect, sterling, sublime, awesome, eminent, fab, fantastic, matchless, peerless, pre-eminent, supreme, tip-top, top-notch, very good, ace, admirable, capital, super, swell, tremendous, worthy, class, magic, of high quality, supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, topping, wicked, wizard, awesomesauce, bosting, brill, brilliant, champion, mind-blowing … more
  5. Examples:
      6. “That's a dandy idea, Dr. Gold!”
      “Not to worry. Everything's absolutely dandy down here.”
dandyish
  1. Characteristic of or resembling the style of a dandy.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. preening, vain, affected, decadent, foppish, narcissistic, dandiacal, self-obsessed, dapper, natty, dandified, dressy, spruce, posturing, dandy, prinking, fashionable, coxcombical, overdressed, dressed up, dressed to kill, modish … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “The anchor is a dour and dandyish aristocrat in a bow tie who reads the official version of the news in a monotone.”
      “He doesn't attempt the stammer, the dandyish manner, the cigarette ostentatiously clamped between the middle fingers.”
      “This is the man's Edwardian aspect, formally old-fashioned and a little dandyish, that those who knew him in his later life fondly recall.”
dandified
  1. Characteristic (in dress and habits) of a dandy
  2. Synonyms:
      3. dapper, natty, fashionable, foppish, overdressed, modish, dressed to kill, dressed up, dandyish, vain, preening, dressy, spruce, posturing, dandy, prinking, self-obsessed, coxcombical, decadent, affected, narcissistic, dandiacal … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “He always adorned himself with extravagant bow ties and meticulously styled hair, truly showcasing his dandified nature.”
dandiacal
  1. Dandyish; like a dandy.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. dandyish, preening, vain, foppish, narcissistic, decadent, affected, self-obsessed, dapper, natty, dandified, dressy, spruce, posturing, dandy, prinking, fashionable, coxcombical … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “For in him the dandiacal temper had been absolute hitherto, quite untainted and unruffled.”
      “By mid-career, he was a narcissistic, dandiacal poseur, although Kelly finds it hard to see him as such.”
      “Several characteristics are deemed essential to the constitution of the dandiacal identity, among which vanity reigns supreme.”
dandier
  1. comparative form of dandy: more dandy
  2. Synonyms:
      3. excellenter, superber, splendider, wonderfuller, finer, greater, cooler, perfecter, sublimer, fabber, supremer, sweller, worthier, wickeder, bragger, braver, bullier, choicer, doper, grander, groovier, heavenlier, hotter, immenser, keener, lovelier, meaner, neater, niftier, peachier, phatter, slicker, flier, more marvellous, more terrific, more exceptional, more magnificent, more outstanding, more awesome, more eminent, more fantastic, more matchless, more peerless, more top-notch, more ace, more admirable, more tremendous, more topping, more awesomesauce, more bosting … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “If we had managed to probe any other area of human endeavour or questioning to the depth that we have pushed pure maths, the world would be a far dandier place.”
dandiest
  1. superlative form of dandy: most dandy
  2. Synonyms:
      3. excellentest, superbest, splendidest, wonderfullest, finest, greatest, coolest, perfectest, sublimest, fabbest, supremest, swellest, worthiest, wickedest, braggest, bravest, bulliest, choicest, dopest, grandest, grooviest, heavenliest, hottest, immensest, keenest, loveliest, meanest, neatest, niftiest, peachiest, phattest, slickest, fliest, most marvellous, most terrific, most exceptional, most magnificent, most outstanding, most awesome, most eminent, most fantastic, most matchless, most peerless, most top-notch, most ace, most admirable, most tremendous, most topping, most awesomesauce, most bosting … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Because fashion, to quote that dandiest of dandies Quentin Crisp, is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.”
      “If you needed someone so bad, why do you always do your dandiest to push away, fella?”
dandifying
  1. present participle of dandify
  2. Synonyms:
      3. dandyizing, clothing, dressing, attiring, robing, garbing, arraying, costuming, appareling, apparelling, habiting, caparisoning, enrobing, suiting, bedecking, investing, gowning, vesturing, accoutring, accoutreing, outfitting, toileting, bedizening, decking, draping, equipping, donning, togging, rigging, accoutering, fitting, swathing, covering, enwrapping, coating, disguising, dizening, endowing, enduing, liverying, mantling, primping, vesting, sprucing, decking out, dressing up, rigging out, getting up, fitting out, doing up … more
dandyized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of dandyize
  2. Synonyms:
      3. dandified
dandyizing
  1. present participle of dandyize
  2. Synonyms:
      3. dandifying
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