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| Main Entry: | style |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | name, title |
| Synonyms: | address, baptize, call, christen, designate, dub, entitle, label, term, denominate |
| Main Entry: | style |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fashion, manner |
| Synonyms: | appearance, approach, bearing, behavior, carriage, characteristic, cup of tea*, custom, cut*, description, design, flash*, form, genre, groove*, habit, hand, idiosyncrasy, kind, method, mode, number, pattern, peculiarity, rage*, sort, spirit, strain, technique, tenor, thing*, tone, trait, trend, type, variety, vein, vogue, way, druthers |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | style |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fashionableness |
| Synonyms: | élan, chichi*, comfort, craze, dash, delicacy, dernier cri, ease, elegance, fad, flair, grace, grandeur, luxury, mode, panache, polish, rage, refinement, savoir-faire, sophistication, taste, thing*, vogue, cosmopolitanism, dressiness, smartness, stylishness, urbanity |
| Antonyms: | unstylishness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | style |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | way of speaking, writing, expressing oneself |
| Synonyms: | diction, expression, phraseology, treatment, vein, wording, mode of expression, phrasing, turn of phrase |
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| Synonyms: |
-nouns
style, diction, phraseology, wording; manner, strain; composition; mode of expression, choice of words; mode of speech, literary power, ready pen, pen of a ready writer; command of language (eloquence) [more]; authorship; la morgue littéraire.
-verbs
express by words [more]; write.
-phrases
le style est l'homme même [Buffon]; "style is the dress of thoughts " [Chesterfield].
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| Main Entry: | artistry |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | great skill in creative endeavors |
| Synonyms: | ability, accomplishment, creativity, finesse, flair, genius, mastery, proficiency, style, talent, taste, touch, workmanship, artfulness, brilliance, craftship, virtuosity |
| Antonyms: | inability, incapacity, ineptitude |
| Main Entry: | behavior |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | manner of conducting oneself |
| Synonyms: | act, action, address, air, attitude, bag*, bearing, carriage, code, comportment, conduct, convention, course, dealings, decency, decorum, deed, delivery, demeanor, deportment, ethics, etiquette, expression, form, front, guise, habits, management, mien, mode, morals, nature, observance, performance, practice, presence, propriety, ritual, role, routine, savoir-faire, seemliness, social graces, speech, style, tact, talk, taste, tenue, tone, way, way of life, ways, what's done |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | characteristic |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | typical feature, trait |
| Synonyms: | affection, aspect, attribute, badge, bag, bearing, bent, caliber, cast, complexion, component, disposition, distinction, earmark, endowment, essence, essential, faculty, flavor, frame, idiosyncrasy, inclination, individuality, mannerism, mark, mood, nature, originality, peculiarity, personality, point, property, quality, specialty, streak, stripe, style, symptom, temperament, tendency, thing, tinge, tone, trademark, turn, virtue, differentia, lineament, particularity, singularity, thumbprint |
| Antonyms: | abnormality |
| Main Entry: | characterize |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | typify, distinguish |
| Synonyms: | brand, constitute, define, delineate, describe, designate, differentiate, discriminate, feature, identify, indicate, inform, make up, mark, outline, peg, pigeonhole*, portray, represent, stamp, style, symbolize, tab, belong to, button down, individualize, individuate, peculiarize, personalize, signalize, singularize, typecast |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | christen |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | named in religious rite |
| Synonyms: | baptize, bless, call, dedicate, designate, dub, entitle, immerse, sprinkle, style, term, title, asperse, denominate, godparent |
| Main Entry: | costume |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | set of clothes |
| Synonyms: | apparel, attire, clothing, dress, duds*, ensemble, fashion, garb, guise, mode, outfit, rig*, style, suit, uniform, wardrobe, getup, livery, robes |
| Notes: | costume and custom were actually two forms of the same Latin root consuetudinem 'habit, custom,' with costume first meaning 'manners and customs belonging to a particular time and place' |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dub |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | name, label something |
| Synonyms: | baptize, bestow, call, christen, confer, designate, entitle, knight, nickname, style, tag, term, title, denominate |
| Main Entry: | edit |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | rewrite, refine |
| Synonyms: | adapt, alter, amplify, analyze, annotate, arrange, assemble, assign, butcher, censor, check, choose, compile, compose, condense, correct, cut, delete, discard, doctor, draft, emend, excise, feature, fine-tune, finish, go over, make up, massage*, polish, prepare, prescribe, proofread, publish, put together, rearrange, rectify, regulate, rehash, rephrase, report, revise, scrub*, select, set up, strike out, style, tighten, trim, blue-pencil*, boil down*, fly speck, recalibrate, redact, write over |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | élan |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | vivacity |
| Synonyms: | animation, ardor, dash, esprit, flair, impetus, life, oomph*, panache, spirit, style, verve, vigor, vim, zest, zing*, brio, impetuosity |
| Antonyms: | dullness, lifelessness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | elegance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cultivated beauty, taste |
| Synonyms: | breeding, charm, class, cultivation, culture, delicacy, dignity, discernment, distinction, felicity, gentility, grace, grandeur, hauteur, luxury, magnificence, nicety, nobility, polish, politeness, propriety, purity, refinement, restraint, rhythm, sophistication, splendor, style, symmetry, courtliness, exquisiteness, good taste, gracefulness, lushness, noblesse, ornateness, poshness, sumptuousness, tastefulness |
| Antonyms: | roughness, ugliness, crudeness, inelegance, poor taste |
| Main Entry: | eloquence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | skillful way with words |
| Synonyms: | ability, appeal, articulation, delivery, diction, dramatic, expression, facility, fervor, flow, fluency, force, gift of gab*, loquacity, oration, oratory, passion, persuasiveness, poise, power, rhetoric, spirit, style, vigor, vivacity, wit, command of language, expressiveness, expressivity, forcefulness, grandiloquence, meaningfulness, mellifluousness, volubility, wittiness |
| Antonyms: | dullness, inarticulateness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fad |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | craze |
| Synonyms: | affectation, amusement, caprice, chic, conceit, cry, custom, dernier cri, eccentricity, fancy, fantasy, fashion, frivolity, furor, hobby, humor, innovation, kick, kink, mania, mode, passion, quirk, rage, sport, style, thing, trend, vagary, vogue, whim, whimsy, wrinkle, fool notion, in, in thing, latest word, new look, newest wrinkle, passing fancy |
| Antonyms: | standard, tradition |
| Main Entry: | genre/genus |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | type, class |
| Synonyms: | brand, category, character, classification, fashion, group, kind, school, sort, species, style |
| Main Entry: | genus |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | type |
| Synonyms: | brand, breed, category, class, compartment, department, division, genre, group, kind, make, model, section, sort, style, subdivision, variety, subfamily |
| Main Entry: | handwriting |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | the way a person writes |
| Synonyms: | chirography, hand, manuscript, mark, scratching, scrawl, scribble, script, style, writing, autography, calligraphy, chicken scratch, ductus, griffonage, hieroglyphics, longhand, manuscription, pencraft, penscript, scription, scrivenery, scrivening |
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