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Definition: In Good Taste |
In Good TasteAdjective1. Having or showing or conforming to good taste. 2. Satisfying generally accepted social or esthetic standards. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: In Good TasteSynonyms: in good taste(p) (adj), tasteful (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: tasteless (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Taste | Adjective: in good taste, cute, tasteful, tasty; unaffected, pure, chaste, classical, attic; cultivated, refined; dainty; esthetic, aesthetic, artistic; elegant; euphemistic. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | All In Good Taste (1983) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Your riches and your enjoyments are advantages that I have over you in the debate, but it is not in good taste to avail myself of them. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Expression using "in good taste": dress in good taste. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "in good taste"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Albanian | secill sipas gusto (dress in good taste). (various references) | ||||||||||
German | geschmackvoll (elegant, tasteful, tastefully, tastily, tasty). (various references) | ||||||||||
Greek | καλόγουστοσ (tasteful), καλαίσθητοσ (aesthetic, elegant, tasteful). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | inay oodgay astetay smakfull (elegant, nice, tasteful, tasty). (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-g-i-n-o-o-s-t-t" | |
-2 letters: antidotes, dotations, gestation, stationed, toadstone. | |
-3 letters: agonised, antidote, astonied, diagnose, dotation, estating, instated, odonates, ostinato, sedating, sedation, steading, stegodon, tangiest, tetanoid, toasting. | |
-4 letters: agisted, agonies, agonise, agonist, atonies, attends, dentist, destain, detains, dingoes, distant, distent, doating, donates, dotages, dotiest, dotting, easting, eatings, egotist, ganoids, gentoos, gitanos, goodies, gooiest, goonies, ingates, ingesta, ingoted, instate. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-g-i-n-o-o-s-t-t" | |
+3 letters: prognosticated. | |
+4 letters: retrogradations. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Modern 4. Quotations: Fiction | 5. Expressions 6. Translations: Modern 7. Anagrams 8. Bibliography |
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