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STYLISH
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Being or in accordance with current social fashions
Example:
a fashionable cafe
Synonyms:
fashionable; stylish
Classified under:
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)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Having elegance or taste or refinement in manners or dress
Example:
the stylish resort of Gstadd
Synonyms:
fashionable; stylish
Classified under:
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)
