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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. having gaps or spaces;
- Example: "sign on the dotted line"
[syn: dashed, dotted]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Dash \Dash\ (d[a^]sh), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dashed; p. pr. & vb. n. Dashing.] [Of. Scand. origin; cf. Dan daske to beat, strike, Sw. & Icel. daska, Dan. & Sw. dask blow.] 1. To throw with violence or haste; to cause to strike violently or hastily; -- often used with against. [1913 Webster] If you dash a stone against a stone in the botton of the water, it maketh a sound. --Bacon. [1913 Webster] 2. To break, as by throwing or by collision; to shatter; to crust; to frustrate; to ruin. [1913 Webster] Thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel. --Ps. ii. 9. [1913 Webster] A brave vessel, . . . Dashed all to pieces. --Shak. [1913 Webster] To perplex and dash Maturest counsels. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 3. To put to shame; to confound; to confuse; to abash; to depress. --South. [1913 Webster] Dash the proud gamester in his gilded car. --Pope. [1913 Webster] 4. To throw in or on in a rapid, careless manner; to mix, reduce, or adulterate, by throwing in something of an inferior quality; to overspread partially; to bespatter; to touch here and there; as, to dash wine with water; to dash paint upon a picture. [1913 Webster] I take care to dash the character with such particular circumstance as may prevent ill-natured applications. --Addison. [1913 Webster] The very source and fount of day Is dashed with wandering isles of night. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster] 5. To form or sketch rapidly or carelessly; to execute rapidly, or with careless haste; -- with off; as, to dash off a review or sermon. [1913 Webster] 6. To erase by a stroke; to strike out; knock out; -- with out; as, to dash out a word. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

dashed adj 1: having gaps or spaces; "sign on the dotted line" [syn: dashed, dotted]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

98 Moby Thesaurus words for "dashed": absolute, baffled, balked, betrayed, bilked, blamed, blankety-blank, blasted, blessed, blighted, bowed-down, cast down, chapfallen, confounded, crestfallen, crossed, crushed, cursed, cussed, dadburned, damnable, danged, darned, defeated, dejected, demoralized, depressed, despairing, despondent, desponding, deuced, disappointed, discouraged, disheartened, dished, disillusioned, dispirited, dissatisfied, doggone, doggoned, down, downcast, downhearted, downright, drooping, droopy, feeling low, foiled, frustrated, goldanged, goldarned, goshdarn, gross, heartless, hypochondriac, hypochondriacal, ill done-by, ill-served, in low spirits, in the depths, in the doldrums, in the dumps, infernal, languishing, let down, low, low-spirited, neurasthenic, out of countenance, outright, overcome, pessimistic, pining, prostrate, prostrated, reduced to jelly, regretful, ruddy, shaken, shot, shot to pieces, sorely disappointed, soured, spiritless, stricken, subdued, suicidal, thwarted, undone, unglued, unmanned, unmitigated, unnerved, unstrung, upset, weary of life, woebegone, world-weary