swank

1. 1.

   display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously

   “he showed off his new sports car”

   Synonymsflauntflashshow offostentate

   Broaderexpose

   Narrowerflexsplurge

1. 1.

   imposingly fashionable and elegant

   “a swank apartment”

   Synonymsswanky

   Similarfashionable

Other forms of swank

plural

swanks·

past tense

swanked·

present participle

swanking·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about swank

What does swank mean?

swank means "elegance by virtue of being fashionable". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in swank?

swank has 1 syllable: swank. In IPA it is /ˈswæŋk/.

What is another word for swank?

Close synonyms include chic, chicness, chichi, modishness, smartness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is swank a common word?

swank is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.