HyperDic: stylish

English > 2 senses of the word *stylish*:
ADJECTIVE	all	stylish, fashionable	having elegance or taste or refinement in manners or dress
ADJECTIVE	all	stylish, fashionable	being or in accordance with current social fashions

stylish > pronunciation
Sounds	stay'lihsh
Rhymes	abolish ... Yiddish: 161 rhymes with ihsh...

English > *stylish*: 2 senses > adjective 1
Meaning	Having elegance or taste or refinement in manners or dress.
Examples	"a little less posh but every bit as stylish as Lord Peter Wimsey" "the stylish resort of Gstadd"
Synonym	fashionable
Narrower	chic, smart, voguish	Elegant and stylish
	chichi	affectedly trendy and fashionable
	classy, posh, swish	Elegant and fashionable
	snazzy	flashily stylish
Opposite	styleless, unstylish	lacking in style or elegance
Spanish	elegante, estiloso
Nouns	stylishness	elegance by virtue of being fashionable
Adverbs	stylishly	in a stylish manner

English > *stylish*: 2 senses > adjective 2
Meaning	Being or in accordance with current social fashions.
Synonym	fashionable
Narrower	cool	fashionable and attractive at the time
	dapper, dashing, jaunty, natty, raffish, rakish, spiffy, snappy, 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
	latest, a la mode, in style, in vogue, modish	In the current fashion or style
	mod, modern, modernistic	relating to a recently developed fashion or style
	old-time, quaint, olde worlde	attractively old-fashioned (but not necessarily authentic)
	swank, swanky	imposingly fashionable and elegant
	trendsetting, trend-setting	Initiating or popularizing / popularizing a trend
	trendy, voguish	In accord / accord with the latest fad
	up-to-date, up to date, cutting-edge, with-it	In accord / accord with the most fashionable ideas or style
Opposite	unfashionable, unstylish	not in accord / accord with or not following current fashion
Nouns	stylishness	elegance by virtue of being fashionable

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