tasteful
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Adjective[edit]
tasteful (comparative more tasteful, superlative most tasteful)
- Having or exhibiting good taste; aesthetically pleasing or conforming to expectations or ideals of what is appropriate.
- Her home was decorated with tasteful, classical furnishings.
- Having a high relish; savoury.
- 1712, Alexander, transl. Pope, Vertumnus and Pomona, translation of Metamorphoses by Ovid, lines 100–104; republished in The Complete Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Boston, New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1902, page 66:
- Not the fair fruit that on you branches glows / With that ripe red th' autumnal sun bestows; / Nor tasteful herbs that in these gardens rise, / Which the kind soil with milky sap supplies;
- (colloquial) Gay; fashionable. [from 21st c.]
Synonyms[edit]
- (exhibiting good taste): elegant, tasty
- (savoury): appetizing, delectable; see also Thesaurus:delicious
- (fashionable): chic, trendy; see also Thesaurus:fashionable
Antonyms[edit]
- (antonym(s) of "exhibiting good taste"): gaudy, garish, tasteless; see also Thesaurus:gaudy
- (antonym(s) of "savoury"): distasteful, yucky; see also Thesaurus:unpalatable
- (antonym(s) of "fashionable"): outmoded, untrendy; see also Thesaurus:unfashionable
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Translations[edit]
exhibiting good taste
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