What part of speech is dapper?

Dapper can be categorized as an adjective.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. dapper is an adjective.

Inflections

Adjective

What does dapper mean?

Definitions

Adjective

dapper - marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners; "a dapper young man"; "a jaunty red hat"

Examples of dapper

#   Sentence  
1. adj. A dapper young man.
2. adj. Who's this dapper young man?
3. adj. He was a dapper man with a mustache that curled neatly at each tip.
4. adj. He had no illusions about the London police. Indeed, he was collecting evidence of their malpractices; and those costermongers, not allowed to stand their barrows in the streets; and prostitutes, good Lord, the fault wasn't in them, nor in young men either, but in our detestable social system and so forth; all of which he considered, could be seen considering, grey, dogged, dapper, clean, as he walked across the Park to tell his wife that he loved her.
Sentence  
adj.
A dapper young man.
Who's this dapper young man?
He was a dapper man with a mustache that curled neatly at each tip.
He had no illusions about the London police. Indeed, he was collecting evidence of their malpractices; and those costermongers, not allowed to stand their barrows in the streets; and prostitutes, good Lord, the fault wasn't in them, nor in young men either, but in our detestable social system and so forth; all of which he considered, could be seen considering, grey, dogged, dapper, clean, as he walked across the Park to tell his wife that he loved her.

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