Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: stylish
IPA transcription: [st'aɪlɪʃ]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: fashionable, stylish
    Meaning: being or in accordance with current social fashions; "fashionable clothing"; "the fashionable side of town"; "a fashionable cafe"
  • Synonyms: stylish, fashionable
    Meaning: 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"
Usage examples
  • Marvel was very stylish, with five flounces to her dress, a veil, and a parasol.
  • They are uncomfortable, it is true, but stylish, and that is the main point about clothes. ...
  • Nevertheless, such grounds as these, surrounded with lofty trees, are more tempting to those who desire to have a stylish dwelling.
  • Our birds cannot be enslaved, that is certain; therefore you must have the fashions changed, so it will no longer be stylish for women to wear birds upon their hats."
  • The fellow was exceedingly grateful, for had he lost that ninth life it would have been the end of him; so he begged permission to furnish me with the stylish costume I now wear.
  • In her dowdy black and antiquated ornaments she was not what Undine would have called "stylish"; but she had a droll kind way which reminded the girl of her father's manner when he was not tired or worried about money.