style  

Thesaurus for style

• noun
  • synonyms
    • manner, mode, way, fashion, expressive style, vogue, trend, dash, elan, flair, panache, stylus, appendage, appreciation, communication, direction, discernment, elegance, form, instruction, kind, outgrowth, perceptiveness, process, property, reproductive structure, sort, taste, tool, variety  
• verb
  • synonyms
    • title, call, create, make, name, write  

Pronunciation of style: S T AY1 L (staɪl)

Number of syllables of style: 1

Definition of style

• (n): a slender bristlelike or tubular process; "a cartilaginous style"  
• (n): a pointed tool for writing or drawing or engraving; "he drew the design on the stencil with a steel stylus"  
• (n): distinctive and stylish elegance; "he wooed her with the confident dash of a cavalry officer"  
• (n): how something is done or how it happens; "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"  
• (n): the popular taste at a given time; "leather is the latest vogue"; "he followed current trends"; "the 1920s had a style of their own"  
• (n): a particular kind (as to appearance); "this style of shoe is in demand"  
• (n): editorial directions to be followed in spelling and punctuation and capitalization and typographical display  
• (n): 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; "all the reporters were expected to adopt the style of the newspaper"  
• (n): (botany) the narrow elongated part of the pistil between the ovary and the stigma  
• (v): make consistent with certain rules of style; "style a manuscript"  
• (v): designate by an identifying term; "They styled their nation `The Confederate States''"  
• (v): make consistent with a certain fashion or style; "Style my hair"; "style the dress"  

Examples of style

• Veterans vanquish Brent in fine style.  
• Varying style may avoid monotony.  
• Dag style isn't by necessity slovenly.  
• For each style of salutation there is an accompanying style of valediction.  
• A functionalist style pervades the house.  
• The style in question is the impersonal concrete box modernist style.  
• For each style of salutation, there is an accompanying style of valediction.  
• Her style is a bit showy.  
• Dag style isn't necessarily slovenly.  
• The other style of embroidery is the Banjara style, popularised in Sandur.