stylish
/ˈstaɪlɪʃ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.70 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "“[…] Did you ever see her? a smart, stylish girl they say, but not handsome. […]”"
- "[…] 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."
- "“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.”"
- "But I presume he was too stylish for me—he travelled for the firm, and had seen a great deal of society."
Etymology
Etymology tree English style Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-isk Old English -isċ Middle English -isch English -ish English stylish From style + -ish.