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Definition: Tasteful |
TastefulAdjective1. Having or showing or conforming to good taste. 2. Having flavor. 3. Free from what is tawdry or unbecoming; "a neat style"; "a neat set of rules"; "she hated to have her neat plans upset". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "tasteful" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Synonyms: TastefulSynonyms: in good taste(p) (adj), neat (adj), refined (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. | |
Crosswords: Tasteful |
| English words defined with "tasteful": aesthetically, appointed ♦ Elegancy, elegant, esthetically ♦ Gustful, Gustoso ♦ tastefully, tastily. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "tasteful": Tasty. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "tasteful": Gustful. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I'm glad you kept it tasteful. (Filthy Rich; writing credit: Barry E. Blitzer; Linda Bloodworth-Thomason) Body art, if tasteful done can be very appealing (The Division; writing credit: Guglielmo Enea; Marcello Fois) | |
Lyrics | When you hear the stuff of records get a tasteful (Request Line; performing artist: Black Eyed Peas) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Eaten Alive: A Tasteful Revenge (1999) A Tasteful Romance (1978) | |
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Bob Barker | People underestimate television viewers, I think. I think that they are much more discriminating, much more tasteful than people give them credit for being. |
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| "Tasteful" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 98.40% of the time. "Tasteful" is used about 125 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 98.4% | 123 | 28,925 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.6% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 125 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Containing "tasteful": more-tasteful-than-average. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "tasteful"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i shijshëm (appetizing, delicate, delicious, enjoyable, goluptious, luscious, nutty, palatable, sapid, Savory, savoury, scrumptious, succulent, tasty, toothsome, yummy), i bërë me gusto. (various references) | |
Arabic | لذيذ (dainty, delectable, delicious, delightful, flavorful, flavourful, good, nice, palatable, pleasant, sapid, savory, sweet, sympathetic, tasty, toothsome, unique, yummy), حسن التذوق, طيب المذاق (dainty, good taste, luscious, yummy), دال على حسن الذوق. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | направен с вкус, благоприличен (christian, decent, decorous, modest, proper), изискан (accomplished, classic, discerning, distinguished, elegant, exact, exquisite, gracious, neat, nice, polished, polite, precise, recherche, refined, urbane, well-rounded). (various references) | |
Chinese | 雅致. (various references) | |
Czech | vkusný (elegant, sophisticated, stylish, tasty), chutný (appetizing, dainty, delicious, drinkable, good, palatable, sapid, Savory, scrumptious, tasty, toothsome). (various references) | |
Finnish | aistikas (elegant, stylish). (various references) | |
French | d'un goût sûr, de bon goût (tasting, tasty), élégant. (various references) | |
German | geschmackvoll (elegant, in good taste, tastefully, tastily, tasty). (various references) | |
Greek | καλόγουστοσ (in good taste), καλαίσθητοσ (aesthetic, elegant, in good taste), έχων καλό γούστο, φιλόκαλοσ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | ערב (bailor, bondman, euphonious, guarantor, harmonious, pleasant, succulent, surety, tasty, toothsome), בטעם טוב, טעים (delectable, palatable, savoury, succulent, tasty, toothsome). (various references) | |
Hungarian | ízléses (aesthetic, classy, dainty, elegant, esthetic, neat, smart, stylish, tasty), ízletes (delicate, palatable, savory, savoury, tasty, toothsome). (various references) | |
Indonesian | nyaman (comfortable, pleasant, pleasurable), enak (flavorous, nice, tasty). (various references) | |
Italian | raffinato (courtly, dainty, distinguished, elegant, ennobles, fine, ladylike, polished, polite, refined, sophisticated), di buongusto. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 趣の有る (elegant, zestful), 気の利いた (clever, decent, sensible, smart), 渋い (an aura of refined masculinity, astringent, bitter, grim, quiet, sober, stingy, sullen), '落た (fashionable, stylish). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | おもむきのある (elegant, zestful), しぶい (an aura of refined masculinity, astringent, bitter, grim, quiet, sober, stingy, sullen), きのきいた (clever, decent, sensible, smart), しゃれた (fashionable, stylish). (various references) | |
Korean | 멋있은. (various references) | |
Manx | blassagh (gustative). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | astefultay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | saboroso (dainty, delicious, flavored, flavoured, luscious, nice, palatable, sapid, savory, savoury, tasty, toothsome, yummy), fino (braw, choice, dainty, delicate, dressy, exquisite, gallant, gaunt, genteel, gentlemanly, gossamer, keen, knowing, lean, nice, nobby, out-and-out, posh, refined, select, sharp, sheer, sleazy, slender, slim, smart, stylish, subtil, subtile, subtle, tactful, tenuous, thin, well-bred, well-made, wispy), elegante (attic, beau, brave, braw, cheesy, chic, dainty, dandy, dapper, dink, dinky, elegant, fashionable, feat, fetching, flossy, gentlemanly, graceful, handsome, informed, jimp, knowing, ladylike, light, natty, neat, nifty, nobby, pasta, polished, polite, posh, silk stocking, slim, smart, spicy, spruce, stylish, tasty, tony, trig, trim), de bom gosto (fashionable, neat, tasty), com gosto (choicely), apurado. (various references) | |
Russian | сделанный со вкусом. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | ukusan (appetizing, delicious, lickerish, luscious, palatable, sapid, savory, savoury, tasty, toothsome, yummy). (various references) | |
Spanish | de buen gusto. (various references) | |
Swedish | smakfull (elegant, in good taste, nice, tasty), smakful. (various references) | |
Thai | ซึ่งมีรสนิยม, ซึ่งมีรสชาติ"ี. (various references) | |
Turkish | zevkli (decorous, delightful, easy, enjoyable, fun, gracious, pleasurable, select, tasty, zestful), lezzetli (dainty, delicate, delicious, goluptious, luscious, palatable, sapid, Savory, savoury, succulent, tasty, toothsome, yummy, zestful). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | який ма" витончений смак, смачний (appetizing, dainty, gusty, nice, nutty, palatable, sapid, savoury, tasty, toothsome, yummy, yum-yum), зроблений зі смаком (tasty). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | trang nhã có óc thẩm mỹ, nhã (primp). (various references) | |
Welsh | chwaethus (decent). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "tasteful": tastefully, tastefulness, tastefulnesses. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "tasteful": distasteful. (additional references) | |
Words containing "tasteful": distastefully, distastefulness, distastefulnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Tasteful" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: castlefuls, tastefull. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "tasteful" (pronounced tā"stful) |
| 7 | t ā" s t f u l | distasteful. |
| 6 | -ā" s t f u l | wasteful. |
| 5 | -s t f u l | boastful, distrustful, fistful, lustful, mistrustful, restful, wistful, zestful. |
| 4 | -t f u l | artful, deceitful, delightful, disrespectful, doubtful, eventful, fateful, fitful, forgetful, fretful, frightful, fruitful, grateful, hateful, hurtful, spiteful, tactful, insightful, neglectful, regretful, resentful, respectful, rightful, thoughtful, uneventful, ungrateful. |
| 3 | -f u l | apocryphal, awful, baffle, baleful, bashful, beautiful, blissful, bountiful, careful, cheerful, colorful, disdainful, disgraceful, doleful, dreadful, duffel, dutiful, faithful, falafel, fanciful, fearful, flavorful, forceful, gainful, gleeful, graceful, harmful, healthful, helpful, hopeful, houseful, sorrowful, soulful, stifle, stressful, successful, suspenseful, tearful, thankful, joyful, kerfuffle, lawful, masterful, meaningful, merciful, mindful, mournful, muffle, needful, painful, panful, peaceful, pitiful, playful, plentiful, powerful, prayerful, purposeful, raffle, remorseful, reshuffle, resourceful, riffle, rifle, rueful, ruffle, scornful, scuffle, shameful, shuffle, sinful, skillful, trifle, triumphal, truffle, truthful, tuneful, unfaithful, unhealthful, unhelpful, unlawful, unsuccessful, untruthful, useful, vengeful, waffle, watchful, willful, wishful, woeful, wonderful, worshipful, wrongful, youthful. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-f-l-s-t-t-u" | |
-1 letter: sulfate. | |
-2 letters: astute, faults, festal, flatus, flutes, latest, lattes, salute, statue. | |
-3 letters: alefs, false, fates, fault, feast, feats, felts, fetal, fetas, fetus, flats, fleas, flues, flute, fuels, fusel, latte, leafs, least, lefts, lutea, lutes, sault, saute, setal, slate, stale, state, steal, stela, sulfa, sutta, taels, tales, talus, taste, tates, tauts, teals, teats, tesla. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-f-l-s-t-t-u" | |
+1 letter: faultiest. | |
+2 letters: flauntiest, fluctuates, tastefully. | |
+3 letters: distasteful, platterfuls, plattersful, tactfulness, thiosulfate. | |
+4 letters: beautifulest, factualities, gratefullest, tastefulness, thankfullest, thiosulfates, ultraleftism, ultraleftist. | |
+5 letters: distastefully, fluidextracts, flutterboards, tactfulnesses, ultraleftisms, ultraleftists. | |
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