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Snazzy vs Fashionable - What's the difference?

snazzy | fashionable |

As adjectives the difference between snazzy and fashionable

is that snazzy is (informal) elegant in manner of dress; stylish, modern or appealing in appearance; flashy while fashionable is characteristic of or influenced by a current popular trend or style.

As a noun fashionable is

a person; a fop.

snazzy

English

Adjective

(er)
  • (informal) Elegant in manner of dress; stylish, modern or appealing in appearance; flashy.
  • * 2000 , Alev Aktar, " TAILOR MADE GOES: Fashion week closes with Calvin, Donna and Vera," New York Daily News , 23 Sep. (retrieved 8 Jan. 2009):
    • One particularly snazzy outfit consisted of vertically striped pants paired with a horizontally striped and sequined top.
  • (informal) Excellent; clever, ingenious, or adept in behavior, operation, or execution.
  • * 1938 , Jane Murdock, "Friday Afternoon Dances," Washington Post , 17 Apr., p. PY8:
    • Those Friday afternoon dances in the gym are really snazzy .
  • * 2009 , Suzanne Choney, " Palm looks to regain place in smartphone race," msnbc.com , 8 Jan (retrieved 8 Jan 2009) :
    • Of those migrating to the iPhone from other devices, a good number of them are former Treo users who found Apple's device to be a souped-up, snazzier and even easier-to-use version of the Treo.

    Synonyms

    * dapper, elegant, pizazzy, smart, cool * cool (informal), nifty (informal), smart

    Antonyms

    * inelegant, scruffy, sloppy * crappy (coarse slang''), duff, lame (''informal, especially US ), naff (informal), rubbishy (informal)

    Related terms

    * snazzily * snazziness * snazztastic * snazz up

    fashionable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Characteristic of or influenced by a current popular trend or style.
    • a fashionable''' dress; a '''fashionable man
  • Established or favoured by custom or use; current; prevailing at a particular time.
    • the fashionable''' philosophy; '''fashionable opinions
  • (archaic) genteel; well-bred
    • fashionable society
  • * Shakespeare
    • Time is like a fashionable host / That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand.

    Synonyms

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person; a fop
  • * {{quote-book, year=1860, author=Various, title=Atlantic Monthly, Vol. VI.,October, 1860.--No. XXXVI., chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=We speculated upon the astonishment that would have seized upon their simple, innocent hearts, had they beheld, instead of us, a bevy of our city fashionables in full bloom. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1891, author=Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), title=What Is Man? and Other Essays, chapter=At the Shrine of St. Wagner, edition= citation
    • , passage=In large measure the Metropolitan is a show-case for rich fashionables who are not trained in Wagnerian music and have no reverence for it, but who like to promote art and show their clothes. }}
  • * {{quote-news, year=1991, date=September 20, author=George Grass, title=Star Show, work=Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=A few, perhaps, have a further purpose; they desire to assist in that circus, to show themselves in the capacity of fashionables , to enchant the yokelry with their splendor. }}