style
1. how something is done or how it happens (Freq. 28)
- her dignified manner
- his rapid manner of talking
- their nomadic mode of existence
- in the characteristic New York style
- a lonely way of life
- in an abrasive fashion
• Syn:
manner, mode, way, fashion
• Derivationally related forms:
stylist, stylize, mannerly (for: manner)
• Hypernyms:
property
• Hyponyms:
artistic style, idiom, drape, fit, form,
life style, life-style, lifestyle, modus vivendi, setup, touch,
signature, wise, response
2. a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period (Freq. 7)
- all the reporters were expected to adopt the style of the newspaper
• Syn:
expressive style
• Derivationally related forms:
stylistic, stylist, stylize
• Topics:
language, linguistic communication, art, artistic creation, artistic production, music
• Hypernyms:
communication
• Hyponyms:
allegory, analysis, bathos, black humor, black humour,
device, eloquence, fluency, smoothness, euphuism, flatness,
formulation, expression, grandiosity, magniloquence, ornateness, grandiloquence,
rhetoric, headlinese, jargon, journalese, legalese, manner of speaking,
speech, delivery, music genre, musical genre, genre, musical style,
officialese, pathos, prose, saltiness, coarseness, self-expression,
sesquipedality, terseness, turn of phrase, turn of expression, vein, verboseness,
verbosity, writing style, literary genre, poetry
3. a particular kind (as to appearance) (Freq. 7)
- this style of shoe is in demand
• Derivationally related forms:
stylist, stylize
• Hypernyms:
kind, sort, form, variety
4. the popular taste at a given time (Freq. 2)
- leather is the latest vogue
- he followed current trends
- the 1920s had a style of their own
• Syn:
vogue, trend
• Derivationally related forms:
stylist, stylize, trendy (for: trend)
• Hypernyms:
taste, appreciation, discernment, perceptiveness
• Hyponyms:
New Look, fashion, bandwagon
5. (botany) the narrow elongated part of the pistil between the ovary and the stigma
• Topics:
botany, phytology
• Hypernyms:
reproductive structure
• Hyponyms:
stylopodium, cornsilk, corn silk
• Part Holonyms:
pistil
• Part Meronyms:
stigma
6. editorial directions to be followed in spelling and punctuation and capitalization and typographical display
• Derivationally related forms:
stylistic
• Hypernyms:
direction, instruction
7. distinctive and stylish elegance
- he wooed her with the confident dash of a cavalry officer
• Syn:
dash, elan, flair, panache
• Derivationally related forms:
stylistic
• Hypernyms:
elegance
8. a pointed tool for writing or drawing or engraving
- he drew the design on the stencil with a steel stylus
• Syn:
stylus
• Hypernyms:
tool
9. a slender bristlelike or tubular process
- a cartilaginous style
• Hypernyms:
process, outgrowth, appendage
• Hyponyms:
stylet
1. designate by an identifying term (Freq. 1)
- They styled their nation 'The Confederate States'
• Syn:
title
• Derivationally related forms:
title (for: title)
• Hypernyms:
name, call
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
2. make consistent with a certain fashion or style
- Style my hair
- style the dress
• Derivationally related forms:
stylist, styler
• Topics:
fashion
• Hypernyms:
make, create
• Hyponyms:
pompadour
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- They style their hair
3. make consistent with certain rules of style
- style a manuscript
• Hypernyms:
write
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
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