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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners;
- Example: "a dapper young man"
- Example: "a jaunty red hat"
[syn: dapper, dashing, jaunty, natty, raffish, rakish, spiffy, snappy, spruce]

2. having a cheerful, lively, and self-confident air;
- Example: "looking chipper, like a man...diverted by his own wit"- Frances G. Patton
- Example: "life that is gay, brisk, and debonair"- H.M.Reynolds
- Example: "walked with a jaunty step"
- Example: "a jaunty optimist"
[syn: chipper, debonair, debonaire, jaunty]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Jaunty \Jaun"ty\, a. [Compar. Jauntier; superl. Jauntiest.]
   [Formerly spelt janty, fr. F. gentil. See Gentle, and cf.
   Genty.]
   Airy; showy; finical; hence, characterized by an affected or
   fantastical manner.
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

jaunty
    adj 1: marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners; "a dapper
           young man"; "a jaunty red hat" [syn: dapper, dashing,
           jaunty, natty, raffish, rakish, spiffy,
           snappy, spruce]
    2: having a cheerful, lively, and self-confident air; "looking
       chipper, like a man...diverted by his own wit"- Frances G.
       Patton; "life that is gay, brisk, and debonair"-
       H.M.Reynolds; "walked with a jaunty step"; "a jaunty
       optimist" [syn: chipper, debonair, debonaire, jaunty]