stylish
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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈstaɪlɪʃ/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Adjective
stylish (comparative more stylish, superlative most stylish)
- Having style.
- Having elegance or taste or refinement in manners or dress.
- 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:
- “ […] Did you ever see her? a smart, stylish girl they say, but not handsome. […] ”
- 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:
- […] 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.
- 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:
- “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.”
- 1905, Edith Wharton, chapter 13, in The House of Mirth, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC:
- But I presume he was too stylish for me—he travelled for the firm, and had seen a great deal of society.
- (film) Having a particular directing style or cinematography.
Derived terms
Descendants
- → German: stylisch
Translations
having elegance or taste or refinement in manners or dress
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German
Etymology
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Adjective
stylish (strong nominative masculine singular stylisher, comparative stylisher, superlative am stylishsten)
- (less common) Alternative form of stylisch
Declension
| number & gender | singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | |||
| predicative | er ist stylish | sie ist stylish | es ist stylish | sie sind stylish | |
| strong declension (without article) |
nominative | stylisher | stylishe | stylishes | stylishe |
| genitive | stylishen | stylisher | stylishen | stylisher | |
| dative | stylishem | stylisher | stylishem | stylishen | |
| accusative | stylishen | stylishe | stylishes | stylishe | |
| weak declension (with definite article) |
nominative | der stylishe | die stylishe | das stylishe | die stylishen |
| genitive | des stylishen | der stylishen | des stylishen | der stylishen | |
| dative | dem stylishen | der stylishen | dem stylishen | den stylishen | |
| accusative | den stylishen | die stylishe | das stylishe | die stylishen | |
| mixed declension (with indefinite article) |
nominative | ein stylisher | eine stylishe | ein stylishes | (keine) stylishen |
| genitive | eines stylishen | einer stylishen | eines stylishen | (keiner) stylishen | |
| dative | einem stylishen | einer stylishen | einem stylishen | (keinen) stylishen | |
| accusative | einen stylishen | eine stylishe | ein stylishes | (keine) stylishen | |
Positive forms of stylish
| number & gender | singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | |||
| predicative | er ist stylisher | sie ist stylisher | es ist stylisher | sie sind stylisher | |
| strong declension (without article) |
nominative | stylisherer | stylishere | stylisheres | stylishere |
| genitive | stylisheren | stylisherer | stylisheren | stylisherer | |
| dative | stylisherem | stylisherer | stylisherem | stylisheren | |
| accusative | stylisheren | stylishere | stylisheres | stylishere | |
| weak declension (with definite article) |
nominative | der stylishere | die stylishere | das stylishere | die stylisheren |
| genitive | des stylisheren | der stylisheren | des stylisheren | der stylisheren | |
| dative | dem stylisheren | der stylisheren | dem stylisheren | den stylisheren | |
| accusative | den stylisheren | die stylishere | das stylishere | die stylisheren | |
| mixed declension (with indefinite article) |
nominative | ein stylisherer | eine stylishere | ein stylisheres | (keine) stylisheren |
| genitive | eines stylisheren | einer stylisheren | eines stylisheren | (keiner) stylisheren | |
| dative | einem stylisheren | einer stylisheren | einem stylisheren | (keinen) stylisheren | |
| accusative | einen stylisheren | eine stylishere | ein stylisheres | (keine) stylisheren | |
Comparative forms of stylish
| number & gender | singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | |||
| predicative | er ist am stylishsten | sie ist am stylishsten | es ist am stylishsten | sie sind am stylishsten | |
| strong declension (without article) |
nominative | stylishster | stylishste | stylishstes | stylishste |
| genitive | stylishsten | stylishster | stylishsten | stylishster | |
| dative | stylishstem | stylishster | stylishstem | stylishsten | |
| accusative | stylishsten | stylishste | stylishstes | stylishste | |
| weak declension (with definite article) |
nominative | der stylishste | die stylishste | das stylishste | die stylishsten |
| genitive | des stylishsten | der stylishsten | des stylishsten | der stylishsten | |
| dative | dem stylishsten | der stylishsten | dem stylishsten | den stylishsten | |
| accusative | den stylishsten | die stylishste | das stylishste | die stylishsten | |
| mixed declension (with indefinite article) |
nominative | ein stylishster | eine stylishste | ein stylishstes | (keine) stylishsten |
| genitive | eines stylishsten | einer stylishsten | eines stylishsten | (keiner) stylishsten | |
| dative | einem stylishsten | einer stylishsten | einem stylishsten | (keinen) stylishsten | |
| accusative | einen stylishsten | eine stylishste | ein stylishstes | (keine) stylishsten | |
Superlative forms of stylish
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