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stylish

adj
/ˈstaɪlɪʃ/

Etymology

From style + -ish.

  1. derived from *(s)teyg-✻ — “to be sharp; to pierce, prick, puncture, stab; to goad”
  2. derived from stilus — “pointed instrument, pale, spike, stake; writing tool, stylus; act of setting down in writing, composition; characteristic mode of expression, style; stem of a plant”
  3. derived from stylus
  4. derived from style
  5. inherited from stile
  6. suffixed as stylish — “style + ish”

Definitions

  1. Having style.

  2. Having elegance or taste or refinement in manners or dress.

    • “[…] 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.”

  3. Having a particular directing style or cinematography.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at stylish. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01stylish02dress03doll04figure05representation06demographic07classify08classy

A definitional loop anchored at stylish. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at stylish

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA