stylish

• stilish (obsolete)

style +‎ -ish

• IPA^(key): /ˈstaɪlɪʃ/

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stylish (comparative more stylish, superlative most stylish)

1. Having style.
2. Having elegance or taste or refinement in manners or dress.

   Synonym: chic

   Antonym: unstylish

   • 1811, [Jane Austen], chapter XXX, in Sense and Sensibility […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC:

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

   • 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:

     […] 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.

   • 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:

     “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.”

   • 1905, Edith Wharton, chapter 13, in The House of Mirth, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC:

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

3. (film) Having a particular directing style or cinematography.

• stylishly
• stylishness
• unstylish

• → German: stylisch

• hylists

Unadapted borrowing from English stylish.

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stylish (strong nominative masculine singular stylisher, comparative stylisher, superlative am stylishsten)

1. (less common) Alternative form of stylisch