Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Informal Highly stylish; elegant.
Wiktionary
- adj. Elegant, highly stylish or fashionable.
- adj. Showy; tasteless; trying unsuccessfully to demonstrate taste.
- adj. Of a superior type; especially, exhibiting admirable personal qualities.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. informal having elegance or taste or refinement in manners or dress. Opposite of
styleless . - adj. informal exhibiting refinement and high character. Opposite of
low-class
WordNet 3.0
- adj. elegant and fashionable
Etymologies
- class + -y (Wiktionary)
Examples
“We wanted our market to be - I don't want to use the word 'classy' - but a step above, with a certain amount of sophistication.”
“The term classy doesn't even do that kind of attitude justice.”
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“Stephanie is the epitome of what I call a classy lady.”
“People are surprised to see me at parties in classy clothes because I don't/can't wear them every day.”
“On this side of the Atlantic, the word means “style” or perhaps “poise” or “polish,” as in classy or a class act.”
“How classy is it to go on National television and say “Full of Crap”?”
“Dressed in classy outfits that fall somewhere between Butch Cassidy and Woodrow Wilson, Spaghetti Western plays music that's part country, part classical, part jazz.”
“When I think of Todd Helton ..... the word classy comes to mind.”
“In his fourth defense of the title the classy Puerto Rican will go up against No. 4 ranked Mayol (25-3, 19 KO's) who is capable of pulling off an upset.”
“I find them both to be quite "classy" - subtle messages of the ** positive** side of each's agenda.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘classy’.
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bbc uk china vocab.
conservationists, estimate, threats, infertility, eating away at, endangered, furry, panel, in trouble, gongs, triumphed, caps and 1007 more...
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Russian Doll Words
A Russian Doll word is a word that, when you remove the first and last letters, is either the empty string, or a Russian Doll word. These are all of the 6 or more letter Russian Doll words found in...
taramea, tawings, tchicks, timider, tirades, tirings, towings, trailed, trailer, trained, trainee, trainer and 2373 more...
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What a -Y does to an otherwise common, dull word
zany, waxy, wavy, arty, chewy, bony, boxy, cozy, nosy, foxy, wiry, junky and 321 more...
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My Favorites
peanut, chipmunk, pearl, blueberry, graceful, poof, scrumptious, corny, scrambled, blimp, classy, butterfly and 1 more...
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Words that sound the opposite of what...
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Twitter favorites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favorite word" and adds it to this list.
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unfathomably, glice, cuh, fab, ciggaty, doll, thuggin, oxymoronic, pineapple, succubutt, griming, cheeky and 2369 more... -
favorite words
ennui, bonhomie, eschew, liaison, serendipity, lovely, dusk, kitten, epitome, sexy, beloved, darling and 396 more...
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Rescinded Notables
Words whose proposed definition was found to be inappropriate, generating some interesting discussion nonetheless.
probisvijet, classy, stone man taking ..., botttlemaker, stara kranjska
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Positive Adjectives
appealing, attractive, alluring, beautiful, benevolent, charming, classy, charismatic, creative, dreamy, desirable, authentic and 15 more...
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Favorite Adjectives
My personal favorite adjectives in the English language. Will add as I remember or think of them.
brilliant, gay, homosexual, queer, eccentric, ridiculous, horrific, disgusting, revolting, grotesque, classy, gorgeous and 28 more...
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"Interesting" Words
These are words I like, but I realized do not belong on my poetry list. This is probably because they are mostly about sex.
unclassy, frisky, comely, buxom, tumescence, ravish, octodont, feisty, sleaze, creeper, pliant, classy and 1 more...
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Kittie
Taurus, Jupiter, luxury, cat, feline, material, earth, sand, turquoise, independence, stability, indulgence and 66 more...
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Saien's Words
tiansheng lizhi, qingguo qingcheng, nuance, exquisite, saien, shizhe rusi, honglou meng, 天上人間, �?�味, 太上忘情, gottfried, orpheus and 41 more...
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That's one classy broad!
Words I'd use to describe a classy lady. Polite.
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Common but Humorous Adjectives
They're not exotic, they just sound funny in conversation. Example: "a 'disturbing' amount of toilet paper." ...or maybe it's just my stupid sense of humor.
unseemly, curious, disturbing, ungainly, disconcerting, heinous, scathing, ridiculous, classy
Tweets
Looking for tweets for classy.
yarb Discussion on this list. Apr 30, 2009
yarb Ha ha! Jul 25, 2008
whichbe Is this topic racy? Jul 25, 2008
yarb Isn't the concept of social class innately classist? Jul 25, 2008
whichbe This word is rather classist. Jul 25, 2008