Meanings
- colloquialnot comparableusuallyfashionVery, to superior degree.
He must look très sexy in a towel, I thought with a smile, très sexy indeed.
1983, Donna Steinberg, I Lost it All in Montreal, page 304 more examples
My view is that a fraternity is nothing more than a très snob clique or caucus, but I may be wrong.
1947 January 1, Hod., “An Innocent at Large”, in Punch, volume 212, page 16, column 2I seemed to have shot up a few more inches over the last year and some of my jeans were stopping short of my ankles. Très uncool.
2002, Cathy Hopkins, White Lies and Barefaced Truths (Truth, Dare, Kiss or Promise), page 212We have this très cool apartment, and all of the money, and Foo almost has his master’s in bio-nerdism or whatever, and I only have to go home like twice a week so the mother unit still thinks I am living there.
2010, Christopher Moore, Bite Me: A Love Story, page 17Dim lighting plus backrub equals très romantic, and a massage candle kills two lovebirds (Thank you, we’ll be here all week) with one stone.
2015, Cosmo’s Let’s Get Naked, page 223
Origin
- Frenchtrès
- Englishtrès
Borrowed from French très. Attested in English from the 19th century. Doublet of trans.
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