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Modish vs Classy - What's the difference?

modish | classy |

As adjectives the difference between modish and classy

is that modish is conforming with fashion or style while classy is elegant, highly stylish or fashionable.

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

    classy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Elegant, highly stylish or fashionable.
  • That's a very classy outfit.
  • Of a superior type; especially, exhibiting admirable personal qualities.
  • That was a classy response.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2011 , date=October 1 , author=David Ornstein , title=Blackburn 0 - 4 Man City , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Manchester City put the Carlos Tevez saga behind them with a classy victory at Blackburn that keeps them level on points with leaders Manchester United.}}

    Synonyms

    * * cool * trendy

    Derived terms

    * classily * classiness