Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having, showing, or being in keeping with good taste.
- adjective Pleasing in flavor; tasty.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having an agreeable taste; savory.
- Capable of discerning and enjoying what is suitable, beautiful, excellent, noble, or refined; possessing good taste.
- Characterized by the influence of good taste; produced, constructed, arranged, or regulated in accordance with good taste; elegant.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having a high relish; savory.
- adjective Having or exhibiting good taste; in accordance with good taste; tasty.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
having orexhibiting goodtaste ;aesthetically pleasing orconforming to expectations or ideals of what isappropriate - adjective Having a high
relish ;savoury .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having or showing or conforming to good taste
- adjective free from what is tawdry or unbecoming
Etymologies
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Examples
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Ms. Gandhi's dressing room and living room, in tasteful '50s modernism, are also visible, along with the adult bedroom she lined with book shelves holding thousands of tomes on history and politics.
City Walk: New Delhi John Krich 2010
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Countertenor Mynenko in tasteful recital by Stephen Brookes
Thursday recap: "Salome," Mynenko Anne Midgette 2010
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Baton Rouge is already sober ... pathetically so, e.g., as you arrive from the east via I-10, you're greeted by three enormous crosses, constructed, as best I can tell, from solid steel I-beams, painted in tasteful white, proclaiming you've reached Bethany Worship Center/Metal Building Church/Holy Roller East Campus, directly across the highway from ... the Super Wal-Mart/Sam's Club outlet mall.
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Every photograph shows him in tasteful surroundings, impeccably dressed and groomed, with never a hint of the chronic pain that resulted from a riding accident in 1937.
One Swell Party 2004
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Every photograph shows him in tasteful surroundings, impeccably dressed and groomed, with never a hint of the chronic pain that resulted from a riding accident in 1937.
One Swell Party 2004
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Butcher emphasized Monday it will be "tasteful" - no tobacco products and no racy material.
Gazette.com : 2009
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Can’t believe I just used the word tasteful, on Regretsy, without irony.
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It is the work of a highly accomplished pictorial technician whose signature style of painterly stripes and rectangles is yet another example of what is best described as tasteful modernism.
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Messy's use of it surprisingly tasteful, which is something I never thought I would write.
Nation of Thizzlam 2009
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I suppose you made it black-n-white to make it look 'tasteful' (pun not intended but appreciated nonetheless).
fbharjo commented on the word tasteful
flavorful
March 6, 2011