Stylish Meaning
/ˈstaɪlɪʃ/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adjHaving style.
adjHaving elegance or taste or refinement in manners or dress.
Sentence Examples
That's a stylish hat you are wearing.
You're very stylish today.
You gotta agree that he looks stylish in that costume.
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CEFR Practice Quiz
She wore a ____ dress that everyone at the party admired last night.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
He looked very ____ in his new tailored suit, which he bought specifically for the important wedding.
Word Origin & History
Etymology tree English style Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-isk Old English -isċ Middle English -ish English -ish English stylish From style + -ish.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"“[…] 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:
"[…] 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:
"“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:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
She wore a ____ dress that everyone at the party admired last night.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
He looked very ____ in his new tailored suit, which he bought specifically for the important wedding.