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 

• STYLISH (adjective)

Meaning:

Having elegance or taste or refinement in manners or dress

Synonyms:

stylish; fashionable

Context examples:

a little less posh but every bit as stylish as Lord Peter Wimsey / 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)

Meaning:

Being or in accordance with current social fashions

Synonyms:

fashionable; stylish

Context examples:

fashionable clothing / the fashionable side of town / a fashionable cafe

Similar:

a la mode; in style; in vogue; latest; modish (in the current fashion or style)

trendy; voguish (in accord with the latest fad)

trend-setting; trendsetting (initiating or popularizing a trend)

swank; swanky (imposingly fashionable and elegant)

old-time; olde worlde; quaint (attractively old-fashioned (but not necessarily authentic))

mod; modern; modernistic (relating to a recently developed fashion or style)

cutting-edge; up-to-date; with-it (in accord with the most fashionable ideas or style)

in (currently fashionable)

groovy; swagger ((British informal) very chic)

faddish; faddy (intensely fashionable for a short time)

dapper; dashing; jaunty; natty; raffish; rakish; snappy; spiffy; spruce (marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners)

cool (fashionable and attractive at the time; often skilled or socially adept)