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Chic vs Modish - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between chic and modish

is that chic is stylish; elegant while modish is conforming with fashion or style.

As a noun chic

is good form; style.

chic

English

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • stylish; elegant

    • Derived terms

    * ecochic

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Good form; style.

    • Usage notes

    * The noun chic is very often used with an attributive noun or adjective modifier, indicating the kind of style; hence "heroin chic", "boho-chic", "shabby chic", and so on.

    Derived terms

    * (List of chics)

    See also

    * ("chic" on Wikipedia) ----

    modish

    English

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • Conforming with fashion or style.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
    • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=1 citation , passage=The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, when modish taste was just due to go clean out of fashion for the best part of the next hundred years.}}
  • In the mode.

    • Derived terms

    * modishly * modishness