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Modish vs Natty - What's the difference?

modish | natty |

As adjectives the difference between modish and natty

is that modish is conforming with fashion or style while natty is (informal) smart and 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

    natty

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (informal) Smart and fashionable.
  • (Jamaican slang) knotty (e. g. natty dreadlocks)