tasteful

English

Etymology

taste +‎ -ful

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈteɪstfəl/

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• Rhymes: -eɪstfəl

Adjective

tasteful (comparative more tasteful, superlative most tasteful)

1. 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.

2. Having a high relish; savoury.
   • 1712, Alexander, transl. Pope, 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;

3. (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

• (antonym(s) of “exhibiting good taste”): gaudy, garish, tasteless; see also Thesaurus:gaudy
• (antonym(s) of “savoury”): distasteful, yucky; see also Thesaurus:unpalatable
• (antonym(s) of “fashionable”): outmoded, untrendy; see also Thesaurus:unfashionable

Related terms

• tastefully
• tastefulness
• untasteful

Translations

exhibiting good taste

• Bulgarian: изискан (bg) (iziskan), направен с вкус (napraven s vkus)
• Catalan: de bon gust, elegant (ca)
• Dutch: smaakvol (nl)
• Finnish: aistikas (fi)
• French: de bon goût
• Georgian: გემოვნებიანი (gemovnebiani)
• German: geschmackvoll (de)
• Hungarian: ízléses (hu)
• Icelandic: smekklegur (is)
• Sanskrit: रसिक (sa) (rasika)
• Spanish: sabroso (es)
• Swedish: smakfull (sv)

Anagrams

• stateful