stylish

/ˈstaɪlɪʃ/

/ˈstaɪlɪʃ/

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

1. 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

   chic, smart, tony, voguish

   elegant and stylish

   chichi

   affectedly trendy and fashionable

   classy, posh, swish

   elegant and fashionable

   snazzy

   flashily stylish

   antonyms:

   styleless

   lacking in style or elegance

   dowdy

   lacking in smartness or taste
2. 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, 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