Chic

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Chic \Chic\, a. [F. Cf. {Chic}, n.]
     Original and in good taste or form; stylish; in current
     fashion, fashionable. [Colloq.]
     [Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  chic
       adj : elegant and stylish; "chic elegance"; "a smart new dress";
             "a suit of voguish cut" [syn: {smart}, {voguish}]
       n : elegance by virtue of being fashionable [syn: {chicness}, {modishness},
            {smartness}, {stylishness}, {swank}, {last word}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  83 Moby Thesaurus words for "chic":
     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