tasteful
adj/ˈteɪstfəl/
Etymology From taste + -ful.
1
Having or exhibiting good taste; aesthetically pleasing or conforming to expectations or ideals of what is appropriate.
- Her home was decorated with tasteful, classical furnishings.
2
Having a high relish; savoury.
- Not the fair fruit that on you branches glows / With that ripe red th' autumnal sun bestows; / Nor tasteful herbs that in these gardens rise, / Which the kind soil with milky sap supplies;1712, Alexander, transl. Pope, Vertumnus and Pomona, translation of Metamorphoses by Ovid, lines 100–104; republished in The Complete Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Boston, New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1902, page 66:
3
Colloquial Gay; fashionable.
- Synonyms
- elegant, tasty, appetizing, delectable, chic, trendy
- Derived terms
- semitasteful
- Related terms
- tastefully, tastefulness, untasteful