tastefully

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adverb

In a tasteful manner.

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Meanings

adverbtastefully (comparative more tastefully, superlative most tastefully)

comparative more tastefully · superlative most tastefully

  1. In a tasteful manner.

    Passenger saloons are tastefully furnished with wood veneer and partitions, mottled grey Vyanide walls, pale primrose ceilings and grey floor.

    1961 February, “New "Mini-Buffets" from Wolverton”, in Trains Illustrated, page 79
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    He could see that she was tastefully, though not richly, dressed, and that she walked with an elastic step that revealed a light heart and the vigor of perfect health. Her face, of course, he could not analyze, since he had caught only the one brief but convincing glimpse of it.

    1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars

    Antonyms: untastefully

Synonyms & antonyms

adverbIn a tasteful manner.

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adverbwith taste; in a tasteful manner

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Origin

  1. Englishtasteful
  2. Proto-Indo-European*leyg-
  3. Proto-Germanic*līką
  4. Englishtastefully

From tasteful + -ly.

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