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tastefulness
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | good taste |
| Synonyms: | acumen, acuteness, aestheticism, appreciation, correctness, cultivation, culture, decorum, delicacy, discernment, discretion, discrimination, distinction, elegance, feeling, finesse, grace, nicety, penetration, perception, polish, politeness, refinement, restraint, style, susceptibility, tact, tactfulness, taste |
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| Main Entry: | grace |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | charm, loveliness |
| Synonyms: | address, adroitness, agility, allure, attractiveness, balance, beauty, breeding, comeliness, consideration, cultivation, decency, decorum, dexterity, dignity, ease, elegance, etiquette, finesse, finish, form, gracefulness, lissomeness, lithesomeness, mannerliness, manners, nimbleness, pleasantness, pliancy, poise, polish, propriety, refinement, shapeliness, smoothness, style, suppleness, symmetry, tact, tastefulness |
| Antonyms: | clumsiness, ineptness, tactlessness |
| Main Entry: | taste |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | judgment, propriety |
| Synonyms: | acumen, acuteness, aestheticism, appreciation, correctness, cultivation, culture, decorum, delicacy, discernment, discretion, discrimination, distinction, elegance, feeling, finesse, good taste, grace, nicety, penetration, perception, polish, politeness, refinement, restraint, style, susceptibility, tact, tactfulness, tastefulness |
| Main Entry: | elegancy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | elegance |
| Synonyms: | class, distinction, grace, gracefulness, polish, politeness, refinement, stateliness, style, tastefulness, urbanity |
| Main Entry: | urbanity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | elegance |
| Synonyms: | breeding, charm, class, courtliness, cultivation, culture, delicacy, dignity, discernment, distinction, elegancy, exquisiteness, felicity, gentility, good taste, grace, gracefulness, grandeur, hauteur, lushness, luxury, magnificence, nicety, nobility, noblesse, ornateness, polish, politeness, poshness, propriety, purity, refinement, restraint, rhythm, sophistication, splendor, style, sumptuousness, symmetry, tastefulness |
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| Concept: | Elegance. |
| Category: | 2. Conventional means; language generally; various qualities of style |
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-nouns
elegance, purity, grace, ease; gracefulness, readiness; concinnity, euphony, numerosity; Atticism, classicalism, classicism., well rounded periods, well turned periods, flowing periods; the right word in the right place; the mot juste [singular], mots justes [plural]; antithesis. purist.
-verbs
point an antithesis, round a period.
-adjectives
elegant, polished, classical, Attic, correct, Cieceronian, artistic; chaste, pure, Saxon, academical., graceful, easy, readable, fluent, flowing, tripping; unaffected, natural, unlabored; mellifluous; euphonious, euphemism, euphemistic; numerose, rhythmical., felicitous, happy, neat; well put, neatly put, well expressed, neatly expressed.
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| Antonyms: | inelegance |
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| Concept: | [Good taste.] Taste. |
| Category: | 2. Discriminative Affections |
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-nouns
taste; good taste, refined taste, cultivated taste; delicacy, refinement, fine feeling, gust, gusto, tact, finesse; nicety (discrimination); ; polish, elegance, grace., virtu; delettanteism; fine art; culture, cultivation., [Science of taste] aesthetics., man of taste; connoisseur, judge, critic, conoscent, virtuoso, amateur, dilettant, Aristarchus, Corinthian, arbiter elegantiarum, stagirite, euphemist., "caviare to the general" [Hamlet].
-adjectives
in good taste, cute, tasteful, tasty; unaffected, pure, chaste, classical, attic; cultivated, refined; dainty; aesthetic, artistic; elegant; euphemistic., to one's taste, to one's mind; after one's fancy; comme il faut; tire a quatre epingles.
-adverbs
elegantly
-phrases
nihil tetigit quod non ornavit [from Johnson's epitaph on Goldsmith]; chacun a son gout; oculi pictura tenentur aures cantibus [Cicero].
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| Antonyms: | vulgarity |
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