Meanings
comparative more tastefully · superlative most tastefully
- 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 791 more example
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 CedarsAntonyms: untastefully
Synonyms & antonyms
adverbIn a tasteful manner.
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Origin
- Englishtasteful
- Proto-Indo-European*leyg-
- Proto-Germanic*līką
- Englishtastefully
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