TASTEFUL
Dictionary entry overview: What does tasteful mean? • TASTEFUL (adjective)
The adjective TASTEFUL has 2 senses:
1. having or showing or conforming to good taste
2. free from what is tawdry or unbecoming
Familiarity information: TASTEFUL used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• TASTEFUL (adjective)
Meaning:
Having or showing or conforming to good taste
Similar:
aesthetic; artistic; esthetic; pleasing (aesthetically pleasing)
understated; unostentatious; unpretentious (exhibiting restrained good taste)
Also:
elegant (refined and tasteful in appearance or behavior or style)
unpretentious (lacking pretension or affectation)
Attribute:
appreciation; discernment; perceptiveness; taste (delicate discrimination (especially of aesthetic values))
Antonym:
tasteless (lacking aesthetic or social taste)
Meaning:
Free from what is tawdry or unbecoming
Synonyms:
tasteful; neat; refined
Context examples:
a neat style / a neat set of rules / she hated to have her neat plans upset
Similar:
elegant (refined and tasteful in appearance or behavior or style)
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