SWANK Synonyms: 132 Similar and Opposite Words

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noun

as in pomp

excessive or unnecessary display service that is the essence of swank: the waiters pull out your chair for you and even place your napkin on your lap

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adjective

ˈswaŋk

variants or swanky

as in ornate

excessively showy drove up in a red sports car, the swank interior of which was decorated in silver and black

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Recent Examples of swank

Noun

The bright blend of decor is just the right amount of kitsch, fun, and whimsy for a new 14-room townhouse in swank and swish Chelsea. —

Katie Lockhart, Robb Report, 30 July 2024 The scarves were a way to bring softness to something masculine like a suit jacket, but the swank of the fabric in its length and elaborate draping pushed the feeling beyond refinement into something sublime, imperious, and cool. —

Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR, 2 Mar. 2023

Adjective

Most recently design director for Guy Goodfellow, Hodson-Taylor previously worked at David Collins Studio and Nicky Haslam’s NH Design, so he’s bound to draw from his portfolio of swank interiors. —

Alia Akkam, Architectural Digest, 28 Oct. 2024 Many of the buildings look like skeletons, but the shops and markets stay open, by day people walk the streets, and the swank patrons of a dance club party into the night… As a filmmaker, the British director Steve McQueen might be one of the last old-school classicists. —

Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 9 Oct. 2024

Verb

This Bible swanks a custom embossing of the inauguration date, and like other Bibles in the collection, it is written in the King James translation and includes historic American documents, like the text of the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution. —

Natalie Demaree, Miami Herald, 7 Jan. 2025 The season of sunbathing in swim trunks, surfing in board shorts, and swanking about your style in slides—because no one wants to deal with the fuss of lacing up heft shoes and boots or the hassle of smelly socks. —

Bernd Fischer, menshealth.com, 10 May 2023 See all Example Sentences for swank

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Noun

And too much pomp, of the sort that is inextricable from a victory lap like this one, can threaten to kill the anarchic spirit of a show that thrives on spontaneity.

— Judy Berman, TIME, 17 Feb. 2025
The rowdy pomp and ceremony that accompanies a wedding march, meanwhile, is pointedly shown as not all that different from the film’s funeral processions — each soundtracked by the juddering snap and pop of cheap firecrackers.

— Guy Lodge, Variety, 14 Feb. 2025