stylistic

[ stahy-lis-tik ]

adjective

1. of or relating to style.

stylistic

/ staɪˈlɪstɪk /

adjective

1. of or relating to style, esp artistic or literary style

Derived Forms

• styˈlistically, adverb

Other Words From

• sty·listi·cal·ly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of stylistic¹

First recorded in 1855–60; style + -istic

Example Sentences

From the first day on the job, I knew my colleagues’ stylistic choices and musical preferences were of utmost importance to them, communicating information about who they were as consumers and humans.

From Vox

The stylistic appeal may feel amplified due to the dowdiness of the previous version.

From Popular-Science

It has been challenging to create a set of algorithms that can distill so many papers, each with their domain-specific vocabulary and stylistic quirks, into useful recipes, Olivetti says.

From MIT Technology Review

Yet even mute wooden logs and beams appear to teem with life in Nakashima’s art, whose depths are historical as well as stylistic.

From Washington Post

She wishes only that ordinary life had not become so relentlessly casual as to prompt people who have never experienced any stylistic variety to go wild — first at proms and then at weddings.

From Washington Post

“Picking date is one of the most important stylistic decisions a winery makes,” she explained.

From The Daily Beast

That decision would have forced photos in standardized formats to create a stylistic coherence.

From The Daily Beast

In his opinion, the differences between him and his Tea Party opponent were mostly “stylistic.”

From The Daily Beast

Translations into clear and readable English actually fail to convey the stylistic obscurity and difficulty of his Greek.

From The Daily Beast

This was an intentional stylistic choice for the new novel, Bass said.

From The Daily Beast

Throughout the letters in his introduction, Richardson made changes, all largely stylistic.

From Project Gutenberg

They rather point the way to those stylistic developments that most suit the natural bent of the language.

From Project Gutenberg

There were stylistic Zodiac drawings on the walls and blue-mirrored columns supporting the roof.

From Project Gutenberg

As a representative of this stylistic school, it offers little that is new to the third part of classical rhetoric.

From Project Gutenberg

The Greek tragedies were therefore read for other things than their stylistic and dramatic values.

From Project Gutenberg