Dictionary

stylish en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈstaɪlɪʃ/
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Etymology tree English style Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-isk Old English -isċ Middle English -isch English -ish English stylish From style + -ish.

Meanings

1. Having style.
2. Having elegance or taste or refinement in manners or dress.
   • “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.” 1891, Thomas Hardy, chapter LV, in Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volume III, London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], →OCLC, phase the seventh (Fulfilment), page 234:
   • But I presume he was too stylish for me—he travelled for the firm, and had seen a great deal of society. 1905, Edith Wharton, chapter XIII, in The House of Mirth, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC:
   • […] 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. 1871–1872, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter LVI, in Middlemarch […], volume III, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book VI, page 257:
   • “[…] Did you ever see her? a smart, stylish girl they say, but not handsome. […]” 1811, [Jane Austen], chapter XXX, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC:
3. Having a particular directing style or cinematography.

Forms

Antonyms

unstylish

Deriveds

superstylish · stylishness · stylishly · unstylish

Descendants

stylisch

Synonyms

sassy · chic

Translations (36)

uk сти́льний (having elegance or taste or refinement in manners or dress) · pt estiloso (having elegance or taste or refinement in manners or dress) · hu ízléses (having elegance or taste or refinement in manners or dress) · pdt schekjlich (having elegance or taste or refinement in manners or dress) · ro elegant (having elegance or taste or refinement in manners or dress) · fr élégant (having elegance or taste or refinement in manners or dress) · id bergaya (having elegance or taste or refinement in manners or dress) · hu elegáns (having elegance or taste or refinement in manners or dress) · hu divatos (having elegance or taste or refinement in manners or dress) · es estiloso (having elegance or taste or refinement in manners or dress) · es glaxo (having elegance or taste or refinement in manners or dress) · bg елегантен (having elegance or taste or refinement in manners or dress) · ta ஸ்டைலான (having elegance or taste or refinement in manners or dress) · cs stylový (having elegance or taste or refinement in manners or dress) · cmn 優雅 /优雅 (having elegance or taste or refinement in manners or dress) · bg стилен (having elegance or taste or refinement in manners or dress) · cmn 高雅 (having elegance or taste or refinement in manners or dress) · es chingo (having elegance or taste or refinement in manners or dress) · ga galánta (having elegance or taste or refinement in manners or dress) · de stilvoll (having elegance or taste or refinement in manners or dress) · de stylisch (having elegance or taste or refinement in manners or dress) · de stylish (having elegance or taste or refinement in manners or dress) · pl stylowy (having elegance or taste or refinement in manners or dress) · mi tōrire (having elegance or taste or refinement in manners or dress) · de elegant (having elegance or taste or refinement in manners or dress) · gl elegante (having elegance or taste or refinement in manners or dress) · et maitsekas (having elegance or taste or refinement in manners or dress) · es chango (having elegance or taste or refinement in manners or dress) · la auctor (having elegance or taste or refinement in manners or dress) · cs elegantní (having elegance or taste or refinement in manners or dress) · fi tyylikäs (having elegance or taste or refinement in manners or dress) · ro stilat (having elegance or taste or refinement in manners or dress) · ru стильный (having elegance or taste or refinement in manners or dress) · fr stylé (having elegance or taste or refinement in manners or dress) · nl stijlvol (having elegance or taste or refinement in manners or dress) · gd fasanta (having elegance or taste or refinement in manners or dress)