chic as a noun: - 1
as an adjective: - 1
chic
noun
1 chic
Elegance by virtue of being fashionable.
synonyms: chichi, chicness, last word, modishness, smartness, stylishness, swank.
Roget 882:
ostentation,
display,
show,
flourish,
parade,
etalage [Fr.],
pomp,
array,
state,
solemnity;
dash,
splash,
splurge,
glitter,
strut,
pomposity;
pretense,
pretensions;
showing off;
fuss.
magnificence,
splendor;
coup d'oeil [Fr.];
grand doings.
coup de theatre;
stage effect,
stage trick;
claptrap;
mise en scene [Fr.];
tour de force;
chic.
demonstration,
flying colors;
tomfoolery;
flourish of trumpets
etc.
(celebration)
883;
pageant,
pageantry;
spectacle,
exhibition,
exposition,
procession;
turn out,
set out;
grand function;
f=ete,
gala,
field day,
review,
march past,
promenade,
insubstantial pageant.
dress;
court dress,
full dress,
evening dress,
ball dress,
fancy dress;
tailoring,
millinery,
man millinery,
frippery,
foppery,
equipage.
ceremony,
ceremonial;
ritual;
form,
formality;
etiquette;
puncto [Lat.],
punctilio,
punctiliousness;
starched stateliness,
stateliness.
mummery,
solemn mockery,
mouth honor.
attitudinarian†;
fop
etc.
854.
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Roget 852:
fashion,
style,
ton,
bon ton†,
society;
good society,
polite society;
monde [Fr.];
drawing-room,
civilized life,
civilization,
town,
beau monde [Fr.],
high life,
court;
world;
fashionable world,
gay world;
Vanity Fair;
show
etc.
(ostentation)
822.
manners,
breeding
etc.
(politeness)
894;
air,
demeanor
etc.
(appearance)
448;
savoir faire [Fr.];
gentlemanliness†,
gentility,
decorum,
propriety,
biens_eance [Fr.];
conventions of society;
Mrs.
Grundy;
punctilio;
form,
formality;
etiquette,
point of etiquette;
dress
etc.
225.
custom
etc.
613;
mode,
vogue,
go;
rage
etc.
(desire)
865;
prevailing taste;
fad,
trend,
bandwagon,
furore†,
thing,
in thing,
craze,
chic,
last word.
man of fashion,
woman of fashion,
man of the world,
woman of the world;
height of fashion,
pink of fashion,
star of fashion,
glass of fashion,
leader of fashion;
arbiter elegantiarum [Lat.]
etc.
(taste)
850;
the beautiful people,
the fashion set,
upper ten thousand
etc.
(nobility)
875;
elite
etc.
(distinction)
873;
smart set;
the four hundred [U.S.];
in crowd.
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adjective
1 chic
Elegant and stylish:
— Chic elegance.
synonyms: smart, voguish.
Roget 852:
fashionable;
in fashion
etc.
n.;
a la mode,
comme il faut [Fr.];
admitted in society,
admissible in society
etc.
n.;
presentable;
conventional
etc.
(customary)
613;
genteel;
well-bred,
well mannered,
well behaved,
well spoken;
gentlemanlike†,
gentlemanly;
ladylike;
civil,
polite
etc.
(courteous)
894.
polished,
refined,
thoroughbred,
courtly;
distingue [Fr.];
unembarrassed,
degage [Fr.];
janty†,
jaunty;
dashing,
fast.
modish,
stylish,
chic,
trendy,
recherche;
newfangled
etc.
(unfamiliar)
83;
all the rage,
all the go†;
with it,
in,
faddish.
in court,
in full dress,
in evening dress;
en grande tenue [Fr.]
etc.
(ornament)
847.
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Roget 882:
ostentatious,
showy,
dashing,
pretentious;
janty†,
jaunty;
grand,
pompous,
palatial;
high-sounding;
turgid
etc.
(big-sounding)
577;
gairish†,
garish;
gaudy,
gaudy as a peacock,
gaudy as a butterfly,
gaudy as a tulip;
flaunting,
flashing,
flaming,
glittering;
gay
etc.
(ornate)
847.
splendid,
magnificent,
sumptuous.
theatrical,
dramatic,
spectacular;
ceremonial,
ritual.
solemn,
stately,
majestic,
formal,
stiff,
ceremonious,
punctilious,
starched.
dressed to kill,
dressed to the nines,
decjed out,
all decked out,
en granite tenue [Fr.],
in best bib and tucker,
in Sunday best,
endimanch_e,
chic.
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Polish: elegancki
Moby thesaurus: braw, classy, clothes-conscious, clothes-consciousness, cosmopolitan, coxcombry, craze, cry, dandyism, dapper, dashing, dressed to advantage, dressed to kill, dressed up, elegance, elegant, en grande tenue, endimanche, exclusive, exquisite, fad, fashion, fashionable, foppery, foppishness, furore, genteel, good taste, gussied up, in full dress, in full feather, in high feather, in tails, jauntiness, jaunty, mode, modish, modishness, nattiness, natty, neat, neatness, nifty, nobby, posh, rage, recherche, ritzy, sharp, sharpness, sleek, sleekness, slicked up, smart, smartness, smug, snazzy, soigne, soignee, sophisticated, spiffiness, spiffy, spruce, style, style-conscious, stylish, stylishness, swank, swanky, swell, swish, tasteful, tastefulness, trendy, tricksy, trig, trim, trimness, vogue, well turned-out, well-dressed, well-groomed, with-it ... show more.
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