tasteful
English edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
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
- (exhibiting good taste): gaudy, garish, tasteless; see also Thesaurus:gaudy
- (savoury): distasteful, yucky; see also Thesaurus:unpalatable
- (fashionable): outmoded, untrendy; see also Thesaurus:unfashionable
Related terms edit
Translations edit
exhibiting good taste
|