chic

1. 1.

   elegant and stylish

   “chic elegance”

   “a smart new dress”

   “a suit of voguish cut”

   Synonymssmartvoguish

   Similarstylish

Other forms of chic

plural

chics·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about chic

What does chic mean?

chic means "elegance by virtue of being fashionable". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in chic?

chic has 1 syllable: chic. In IPA it is /ˈʃik/.

What is another word for chic?

Close synonyms include chicness, chichi, modishness, smartness, stylishness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is chic a common word?

chic is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with chic?

2 words rhyme with chic. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.