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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: 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" [syn: stylish, fashionable] [ant: styleless, unstylish]
2: being or in accordance with current social fashions; "fashionable clothing"; "the fashionable side of town"; "a fashionable cafe" [syn: fashionable, stylish] [ant: unfashionable, unstylish]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1785 having style; specifically conforming to current fashion • stylishly adverb • stylishness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 fashionable; elegant. 2 having a superior quality, manner, etc. Derivatives: stylishly adv. stylishness n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Stylish Styl"ish, a. Having style or artistic quality; given to, or fond of, the display of style; highly fashionable; modish; as, a stylish dress, house, manner. -- Styl"ish*ly, adv. -- Styl"ish*ness, n.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Someone or something that is stylish is smart, elegant, and fashionable. ...a very attractive and very stylish woman of 27. ...a varied choice of stylish designs. ADJ • stylishly ...stylishly dressed middle-aged women. ADV

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. (Colloq.) Fashionable, modish, genteel, courtly, in fashion, in vogue, à la mode.

Moby Thesaurus

Daedalian, a la mode, adept, adroit, apt, artistic, authoritative, bravura, brilliant, chic, chichi, classy, clean, clever, coordinated, crack, crackerjack, cunning, cute, daedal, dashing, deft, dexterous, dextrous, diplomatic, doggy, dressed to advantage, dressed up, elegant, en grande tenue, endimanche, excellent, exclusive, expert, fancy, fashionable, good, goodish, graceful, gussied up, handy, in, in fashion, in full dress, in full feather, in high feather, in tails, in the mode, ingenious, magisterial, masterful, masterly, modern, modish, natty, neat, new, new-fashioned, newfangled, no mean, ostentatious, politic, posh, pretentious, professional, proficient, quick, quite some, rakish, ready, resourceful, ritzy, sassy, sharp, showy, skillful, sleek, slick, slicked up, smart, snappy, snazzy, soigne, soignee, some, spiffy, spruce, statesmanlike, swagger, swank, swanky, swell, swish, tactful, the compleat, the complete, tony, trendy, trig, ultrafashionable, virtuoso, vogue, voguish, well turned-out, well-done, well-dressed, with it, with-it, workmanlike