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STYLISH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does stylish mean?
• STYLISH (adjective)
The adjective STYLISH has 2 senses:
1. having elegance or taste or refinement in manners or dress
2. being or in accordance with current social fashions
Familiarity information: STYLISH used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having elegance or taste or refinement in manners or dress
Synonyms:
fashionable; stylish
Context example:
the stylish resort of Gstadd
Similar:
chic; smart; voguish (elegant and stylish)
chichi (affectedly trendy and fashionable)
classy; posh; swish (elegant and fashionable)
snazzy (flashily stylish)
Antonym:
styleless (lacking in style or elegance)
Derivation:
stylishness (elegance by virtue of being fashionable)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Being or in accordance with current social fashions
Synonyms:
fashionable; stylish
Context example:
a fashionable cafe
Similar:
a la mode; in style; in vogue; latest; modish (in the current fashion or style)
cool (fashionable and attractive at the time; often skilled or socially adept)
dapper; dashing; jaunty; natty; raffish; rakish; snappy; spiffy; spruce (marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners)
faddish; faddy (intensely fashionable for a short time)
groovy; swagger ((British informal) very chic)
in (currently fashionable)
cutting-edge; up-to-date; up to date; with-it (in accord with the most fashionable ideas or style)
mod; modern; modernistic (relating to a recently developed fashion or style)
old-time; olde worlde; quaint (attractively old-fashioned (but not necessarily authentic))
swank; swanky (imposingly fashionable and elegant)
trend-setting; trendsetting (initiating or popularizing a trend)
trendy; voguish (in accord with the latest fad)
Derivation:
stylishness (elegance by virtue of being fashionable)
Context examples
No matter what you choose to do, friends will be impressed by your stylish entertaining—you have a remarkable ability to set a beautiful mood.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
The hue of her dress was black too; but its fashion was so different from her sister's—so much more flowing and becoming—it looked as stylish as the other's looked puritanical.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Did you ever see her? a smart, stylish girl they say, but not handsome.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
To this rule, Dr. Jekyll was no exception; and as he now sat on the opposite side of the fire—a large, well-made, smooth-faced man of fifty, with something of a stylish cast perhaps, but every mark of capacity and kindness—you could see by his looks that he cherished for Mr. Utterson a sincere and warm affection.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
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