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Style vs Styleless - What's the difference?

style | styleless |

As adjectives the difference between style and styleless

is that style is elegant, stylish while styleless is lacking good style or any style at all.

As a verb style

is .

style

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A manner of doing or presenting things, especially a fashionable one.
  • * Chesterfield
    • Style is the dress of thoughts.
  • * C. Middleton
    • the usual style of dedications
  • * I. Disraeli
    • It is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work.
  • * Sir J. Reynolds
    • The ornamental style also possesses its own peculiar merit.
  • flair; grace; fashionable skill
    • As a dancer, he has a lot of style .
  • (botany) The stalk that connects the stigma(s) to the ovary in a pistil of a flower.
  • A traditional or legal term preceding a reference to a person who holds a title or post.
  • A traditional or legal term used to address a person who holds a title or post.
    • the style of Majesty
  • * Burke
    • one style to a gracious benefactor, another to a proud, insulting foe
  • (nonstandard) A stylus.
  • (obsolete) A pen; an author's pen.
    • (Dryden)
  • A sharp-pointed tool used in engraving; a graver.
  • A kind of blunt-pointed surgical instrument.
  • A long, slender, bristle-like process.
    • the anal styles of insects
  • The pin, or gnomon, of a sundial, the shadow of which indicates the hour.
  • (computing) A visual or other modification to text or other elements of a document, such as bold or italic.
    • applying styles to text in a wordprocessor
    Cascading Style Sheets

    Derived terms

    * stylish * stylist * hairstyle * style guide * style manual

    See also

    * substance

    Verb

    (styl)
  • To create or give a style, fashion or image.
  • To call or give a name or title.
  • * 1811 , Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility , chapter 10
    • Marianne’s preserver, as Margaret, with more elegance than precision, stiled (SIC) Willoughby, called at the cottage early the next morning to make his personal inquiries.

    Anagrams

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    styleless

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Lacking good style or any style at all.
  • * 1921 , Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Dashiell, Harlan Logan, Scribner's Magazine
    • It is not enough to say that style is a characteristic mode of expression, for then it would be almost impossible to speak of anything as styleless .
  • * 1992 , Greg Johnson, A Friendly Deceit
    • He was too thin, so that the styleless clothes hung poorly, and something in his coloring made her think that he ate the wrong foods.
  • (botany) Lacking a style (stalk structure).
  • * 1990 , Nihon Shokubutsu Gakkai, The Botanical Magazine, Tokyo
    • Short-styled and styleless flowers were sometimes mixed in these individuals.

    Derived terms

    * stylelessly * stylelessness