tasteful
English
Etymology
taste + -ful
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈteɪstfəl/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -eɪstfəl
Adjective
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, Pope, Alexander, transl., 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;
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- (colloquial) Gay; fashionable. [from 21st c.]
Synonyms
- (exhibiting good taste): elegant, tasty
- (savoury): appetizing, delectable; see also Thesaurus:delicious
- (fashionable): chic, trendy; see also Thesaurus:fashionable
Antonyms
- (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
- tastefully
- tastefulness
- untasteful
Translations
exhibiting good taste
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Anagrams
- stateful