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chic
[ sheek ]
adjective
noun
- style and elegance, especially in dress:
Paris clothes have such chic.
- stylishness; modishness:
the chic of the firstnighters.
- casual and understated style, as in dress or décor, that expresses a specified trendy lifestyle or activity:
Black-rimmed glasses bring some geek chic to your outfit.
chic
/ ʃiːk; ʃɪk /
adjective
- (esp of fashionable clothes, women, etc) stylish or elegant
noun
- stylishness, esp in dress; modishness; fashionable good taste
- any of various fashion movements based on a particular lifestyle
radical chic
geek chic
Pronunciation Note
Derived Forms
- ˈchicly, adverb
Other Words From
- chicly adverb
- chicness noun
- super·chic adjective
- ultra·chic adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of chic1
Word History and Origins
Origin of chic1
Example Sentences
But Brooke was out of step with the New Left and its notion of radical chic.
By Ana Marie Cox Just in time for Christmas, Glenn Beck goes for hipster-chic as a conservative fashion statement.
Just in time for Christmas, Glenn Beck goes for hipster-chic as a conservative fashion statement.
Back in 2001, that “definition” of female beauty basically fell into two categories: Playboy chic, or heroin chic.
Jacqueline Kennedy helped change all that in the 1960s, with her unflappable chic and wardrobe full of haute couture.
Now his colouring is chic, capricious, and coquettish, now it is that of the most delicate faded Gobelin tapestry.
He was a nice smart looking young gentleman, and he had with him a lady, well dressed and very chic.
This makes his manner serious and masculine—rescues it from the thinness of tricks and the coquetries of chic.
He was a practical young fellow, and if he wanted a mansion, without which no artist is chic, he meant it to bring him an income.
I loathe the ‘last chic, the little indefinable touches that give a toilet,’ and so forth!
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