Modish vs Classy - What's the difference?
modish | classy |
Conforming with fashion or style.
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=1 In the mode.
Elegant, highly stylish or fashionable.
Of a superior type; especially, exhibiting admirable personal qualities.
* {{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=October 1
, author=David Ornstein
, title=Blackburn 0 - 4 Man City
, work=BBC Sport
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)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.}}
Derived terms
* modishly * modishnessclassy
English
Adjective
(er)- That's a very classy outfit.
- That was a classy response.
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.}}
