stylish
/'stailiʃ/
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Fashionable, elegant: Conforming to or displaying current, sophisticated trends in appearance, behavior, or design. It implies a conscious and often tasteful adherence to what is considered modern and attractive.
- Characterized by refined taste: Exhibiting a polished, sophisticated, or smart quality in manners, dress, or overall presentation.
Examples of Usage
- Adjective:
- She always wears very stylish clothes.
- The new restaurant has a stylish and modern interior.
- He gave a stylish performance, full of grace and confidence.
Advanced Usage
- "stylishly" (adverb): In a fashionable or elegant manner.
- She was stylishly dressed for the gala.
- "stylishness" (noun): The quality of being stylish.
- The stylishness of the design impressed the critics.
Variants and Related Words
- Chic: Stylish and fashionable, often with an element of sophistication and effortlessness.
- Trendy: Very fashionable or up-to-date with the latest styles, sometimes implying a temporary popularity.
- Elegant: Pleasingly graceful and stylish in appearance or manner, often with an emphasis on simplicity and refinement.
- Fashionable: Popular or approved by fashion at a particular time.
- Posh (informal, especially British): Elegant or stylishly luxurious.
Synonyms
- Fashionable
- Chic
- Elegant
- Smart
- Modish
Antonyms
- Unfashionable
- Dowdy
- Unstylish
- Frumpy
Related Phrases and Idioms
- To do something in style: To do something in an impressively elegant, luxurious, or fashionable way.
- They arrived at the party in style, in a vintage limousine.
- A style icon: A person who is famous for being very fashionable.
- The actress is considered a style icon for many young women.
Adjective
- being or in accordance with current social fashions
- fashionable clothing
- the fashionable side of town
- a fashionable cafe
- having elegance or taste or refinement in manners or dress
- a little less posh but every bit as stylish as Lord Peter Wimsey
- the stylish resort of Gstadd