chic
attractive and fashionable; stylish: a chic hat.
style and elegance, especially in dress: Paris clothes have such chic.
stylishness; modishness: the chic of the firstnighters.
casual and understated style, as in dress or décor, that expresses a specified trendy lifestyle or activity: Black-rimmed glasses bring some geek chic to your outfit.
Origin of chic
1pronunciation note For chic
Other words for chic
Other words from chic
- chicly, adverb
- chicness, noun
- su·per·chic, adjective
- ul·tra·chic, adjective
Words that may be confused with chic
- chic , chick
Words Nearby chic
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How to use chic in a sentence
His interior design style could be defined as hobby-shop chic.
Magic Leap tried to create an alternate reality. Its founder was already in one | Verne Kopytoff | September 26, 2020 | FortuneWhere they differ is in passenger capacity, indoor cooking space, and chic extras like Recon’s touchscreen and shower.
Can’t Afford a Sprinter? Get a Tiny Van Instead. | Emily Pennington | September 16, 2020 | Outside OnlineWhen fashion and technology combine, the result is usually a chic product at the end.
With three locations across the country, including one in a northern mountainous region with stunning views of Kazbegi, the brand has become known among savvy travelers for an ultra-modern, smart design it calls “industrial chic.”
The brand’s chic universal basic and denim lines have a small brick and mortar footprint than its mother brand making 40% of its sales online.
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But Brooke was out of step with the New Left and its notion of radical chic.
Ed Brooke: The Senate's Civil Rights Pioneer and Prophet of a Post-Racial America | John Avlon | January 4, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTBy Ana Marie Cox Just in time for Christmas, Glenn Beck goes for hipster-chic as a conservative fashion statement.
Seven Must-Read Stories About North Korea, Police Deaths and Glenn Beck | The Daily Beast | December 27, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTJust in time for Christmas, Glenn Beck goes for hipster-chic as a conservative fashion statement.
Glenn Beck Is Now Selling Hipster Clothes. Really. | Ana Marie Cox | December 20, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBack in 2001, that “definition” of female beauty basically fell into two categories: Playboy chic, or heroin chic.
Masters of Alt Sex: SuicideGirls Hits Puberty and Wants to Invade Your TV Set | Marlow Stern | December 9, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTJacqueline Kennedy helped change all that in the 1960s, with her unflappable chic and wardrobe full of haute couture.
How Oscar de la Renta Created First Lady Fashion | Raquel Laneri | October 21, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTNow his colouring is chic, capricious, and coquettish, now it is that of the most delicate faded Gobelin tapestry.
The History of Modern Painting, Volume 1 (of 4) | Richard MutherHe was a nice smart looking young gentleman, and he had with him a lady, well dressed and very chic.
Mrs. Vanderstein's jewels | Mrs. Charles BryceThis makes his manner serious and masculine—rescues it from the thinness of tricks and the coquetries of chic.
Picture and Text | Henry JamesHe was a practical young fellow, and if he wanted a mansion, without which no artist is chic, he meant it to bring him an income.
The Immortal | Alphonse DaudetI loathe the ‘last chic, the little indefinable touches that give a toilet,’ and so forth!
The Squirrel-Cage | Dorothy Canfield
British Dictionary definitions for chic
/ (ʃiːk, ʃɪk) /
(esp of fashionable clothes, women, etc) stylish or elegant
stylishness, esp in dress; modishness; fashionable good taste
any of various fashion movements based on a particular lifestyle: radical chic; geek chic
Origin of chic
1Derived forms of chic
- chicly, adverb
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