Stylish

/ˈstaɪlɪʃ/ · adjective

Meaning

Having style..

Definitions by Sense

1. Having style.
2. Having elegance or taste or refinement in manners or dress.
3. (film) Having a particular directing style or cinematography.

Example Sentences

“[…] Did you ever see her? a smart, stylish girl they say, but not handsome. […]”

[…] and that her darling boy, with his beautiful face and stylish air “beyond anybody else’s son in Middlemarch,” would be sure to get like that family in plainness of appearance and carelessness about his clothes.

“That’s it!” cried Clare, pleased to think that she had reverted to the real pronunciation. “What place is The Herons?” “A stylish lodging-house. ’Tis all lodging-houses here, bless ’ee.”

But I presume he was too stylish for me—he travelled for the firm, and had seen a great deal of society.

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Antonyms for stylish

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Word Forms

• more stylish
• most stylish
• stilish

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