- (esp of fashionable clothes, women, etc) stylish or elegant
- stylishness, esp in dress; modishness; fashionable good taste
WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2026
chic /ʃik/USA pronunciation
adj., -er, -est, n.
adj.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026adj.
- attractive and fashionable;
stylish:the chic look from Paris. - elegance, esp. in dress design.
n. [uncountable]
chic•ness, n. [uncountable]
chic
(shēk),USA pronunciation adj., -er, -est.
n.
chic′ly, adv.
chic′ness, n.
- attractive and fashionable; stylish:a chic hat.
n.
- style and elegance, esp. in dress:Paris clothes have such chic.
- stylishness;
modishness:the chic of the firstnighters.
- German Schick skill
- French
- 1855–60
chic′ness, n.
- 1. smart, elegant, modish.
- The spelling pronunciation
(chik)USA pronunciation is considered nonstandard except when used facetiously.
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chic /ʃiːk; ʃɪk/ adj
'chic' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
smart
- antihierarchic
- antimonarchic
- autarchy
- chicle
- Chic Sale
- déclassé
- diarchy
- dyarchy
- fashionable
- flair
- Galcha
- heptarchy
- hierarchical
- hyperanarchic
- interpsychic
- matriarch
- Mau Mau
- modish
- monarchical
- nobby
- nonanarchic
- nonhierarchic
- nonmonarchic
- nonoligarchic
- nonpsychic
- patriarch
- pert
- polyarchy
- proanarchic
- psychic bid
- psychic determinism
- psychic distance
- psychic energizer
- psychic energy
- psychic income
- radical chic
- tasteful
- thearchy
- trendy
- turned-on
- unanarchic
- unchic
- unmonarchic
- unpsychic
- voguish
- mau-mau
- semimonarchic
- slick