tasteful

taste +‎ -ful

• IPA^(key): /ˈteɪstfəl/

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• Rhymes: -eɪstfəl

tasteful (comparative more tasteful, superlative most tasteful)

1. Having or exhibiting good taste; aesthetically pleasing or conforming to expectations or ideals of what is appropriate.

   Her home was decorated with tasteful, classical furnishings.

2. Having a high relish; savoury.
   • 1712, Alexander, transl. Pope, Vertumnus and Pomona, translation of Metamorphoses by Ovid, lines 100–104; republished in The Complete Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Boston, New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1902, page 66:

     Not the fair fruit that on you branches glows / With that ripe red th' autumnal sun bestows; / Nor tasteful herbs that in these gardens rise, / Which the kind soil with milky sap supplies;

3. (colloquial) Gay; fashionable. [from 21st c.]

• (exhibiting good taste): elegant, tasty
• (savoury): appetizing, delectable; see also Thesaurus:delicious
• (fashionable): chic, trendy; see also Thesaurus:fashionable

• (antonym(s) of “exhibiting good taste”): gaudy, garish, tasteless; see also Thesaurus:gaudy
• (antonym(s) of “savoury”): distasteful, yucky; see also Thesaurus:unpalatable
• (antonym(s) of “fashionable”): outmoded, untrendy; see also Thesaurus:unfashionable

• tastefully
• tastefulness
• untasteful

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