flair
UK/flɛə/
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British/flɛː/
flair noun: a natural or innate talent or aptitude.
Noun
flair (countable and uncountable, plural flairs)
- A natural or innate talent or aptitude.
- to have a flair for art
- Poirot was an extraordinary looking little man. [...] The neatness of his attire was almost incredible. I believe a speck of dust would have caused him more pain than a bullet wound. Yet this quaint dandified little man who, I was sorry to see, now limped badly, had been in his time one of the most...1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 21
- Distinctive style or elegance.
- to dress with flair
- Each writer offers a unique flair to readers.
- Smell; odor.
- Olfaction; sense of smell.
Verb
flair (third-person singular simple present flairs, present participle flairing, simple past and past participle flaired)
- To add flair.
- Place your thumb on top of the shank and your bent index finger under the hair and pull the tying thread tight to flair it.1988, Poul Jorgensen, Poul Jorgensen's Book of Fly Tying: A Guide to Flies for All Game Fish
flair meaning in Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Tagalog
flair in Tamil
- இயல்புத் திறன், பிறவித் திறன்
flair in Malayalam
- talent, aptitude, gift
- വാസന, സവിശേഷവാസന, സൂക്ഷ്മോപലബ്ധി, തീക്ഷ്ണഘ്രാണം, താല്പര്യം, കഴിവ്
- stylishness, style, panache
- പ്രത്യേകാഭിരുചി, പ്രത്യേകരീതി, പ്രത്യേകശെെലി, തനതായ രീതി, രീതി, ശെെലി
flair in Kannada
- ಅಭಿರುಚಿ, ಸಹಜಶಕ್ತಿ, ಸೂಕ್ಷ್ಮ ಗ್ರಹಣಶಕ್ತಿ, ಉತ್ತಮವಾದದ್ದನ್ನು ಆಯ್ದುಕೊಳ್ಳುವ ಸೂಕ್ಷ್ಮತೆ, ನಡೆ ನುಡಿಯಲ್ಲಿನ ಚಾಲಾಕು, ಸುಟಿ
flair in Tagalog
- natural or innate talent or aptitude
- likas na talino
More languagesFewer languages
- flair in Indonesian
- bakat alami
Examples of flair in a sentence
- As a detective, his flair had been extraordinary, and he had achieved triumphs by unravelling some of the most baffling cases of the day.1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 21:
- The French certainly had a flair for labeling their unhappiness.1999, Lucy Honig, The Truly Needy And Other Stories, University of Pittsburgh Press, →ISBN, page 73:
- You know what, Stan, if you want me to wear 37 pieces of flair, like your pretty boy over there, Brian, why don't you just make the minimum 37 pieces of flair?1999, Mike Judge, Office Space, spoken by Joanna (Jennifer Aniston):
Synonyms of flair
Forms of flair
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | flairs |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | flairs |
| present participle | flairing |
| past participle | flaired |
| past | flaired |
Origin of flair
From Middle English flayre, from Old French flair (“scent, odour”), from flairier (“to reek, smell”), from Latin flāgrō, dissimilated variation of frāgrō (“emit a sweet smell”, verb). More at fragrant.
Words formed from flair
Phrases with flair
Words that rhyme with flair
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- declare
- hair
- Sinclair
- where
- ayr
- care
- layer
- mayor
- parterre
- fare
- glare
- lair
- pear
- prayer
- snare
- compare
- dare
- rare
- share
- swear
- ware
- wear and tear
- Ayer
- blare
- forbear
- Kerr
- laissez faire
- mousquetaire
- pare
- prepare
- repair
- stare
- unfair
- yare
- -ware
- abear
- aflare
- despair
- glair
- heir
- impair
- Pierre
- reair
- scare
- tare
- trillionaire
- Voltaire
- aware
Questions about flair
- What does flair mean?
- Flair means a natural or innate talent or aptitude.
- What is flair in Tamil?
- Flair in Tamil is இயல்புத் திறன், பிறவித் திறன். See Flair meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use flair in a sentence?
- As a detective, his flair had been extraordinary, and he had achieved triumphs by unravelling some of the most baffling cases of the day.
- What part of speech is flair?
- Flair can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce flair?
- Flair is pronounced /flɛə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of flair?
- The plural of flair is flairs.
Words near flair in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: flair (page history and authors); flair (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); flair (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); flair (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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