stylish
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of stylish
Explanation
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.
Vocabulary lists containing stylish
Florida's B.E.S.T. Common Suffixes: -ish
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Homesick
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Example Sentences
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Stylish and bold, the piece fashionably exaggerates your outfit.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 13, 2023
Stylish bars and cozy restaurants sprang up in quirky neighborhoods lined with Soviet-era apartment blocks.
From Washington Post • Apr. 24, 2022
Stylish and funny, it reflects a dysfunctional world like our own.
From New York Times • Apr. 15, 2022
Stylish boxy 60s jackets with graphic statement pockets mixed with sporty vests and dresses that channeled a tennis skirt.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 28, 2021
Then there were the Stylish Strollers, the Huffers and Puffers, the Lovebirds, leaning on each other, the Queasy Stomachs who clutched the railing and hoped for the best.
From "Homesick" by Jean Fritz
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
