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stilish

stilish is the obsolete form of stylish.

Meaning of stylish

Adjective

stylish (comparative more stylish, superlative most stylish)

  1. Having style.
    Synonyms:
    sassy
  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. […]”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
    Synonyms:
    chic
    Antonyms:
    unstylish
  3. Having a particular directing style or cinematography.

Forms of stilish

comparativemore stilish
superlativemost stilish

Origin of stilish

From stile + -ish.

Questions about stilish

What is stilish the obsolete form of?
Stilish is the obsolete form of stylish.

Words near stilish in the dictionary

  1. stiligerid
  2. stiligerids
  3. stiling
  4. stilipedid
  5. stilipedids
  6. stilish
  7. still
  8. still alarm
  9. still and all
  10. still and anon
  11. still as a stock

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stilish (page history and authors); stylish (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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