A stylish person is someone who has a bold sense of fashion, like a queen with flowing robes and gowns, or your friend who always wears the best-looking jeans.
Stylish can describe polite and elegant manners, or it can describe dressing with the current fashion trends, like you walked off the pages of a magazine. The word style makes up the bulk of stylish, and stylish people are in tune with all the latest styles of dress. The suffix ish- can mean “belonging to” and also “addicted to,” and stylish people sometimes do have an addiction to clothes.
Definitions of stylish
adjective
having elegance or taste or refinement in manners or dress
“a little less posh but every bit as stylish as Lord Peter Wimsey”
“the stylish resort of Gstadd”
- synonyms:fashionable
adjective
being or in accordance with current social fashions
- synonyms:fashionable
- 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, 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
see moresee less- Antonyms:
- unfashionable, unstylish
not in accord with or not following current fashion
- antique, demode, ex, old-fashioned, old-hat, outmoded, passe, passee, vintage
out of fashion
- dated
marked by features of the immediate and usually discounted past
- dowdy, frumpish, frumpy
primly out of date
- fogyish, moss-grown, mossy, stick-in-the-mud, stodgy
(used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned
- out
no longer fashionable
- prehistoric
no longer fashionable
- old
of long duration; not new
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- a la mode, in style, in vogue, latest, modish
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