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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
classy
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a classy restaurant
▪ a classy woman
▪ She's smart, witty, and classy.
▪ She took us to a very classy seafood restaurant in the old part of the city.
▪ The cafe's interior has been redone and looks very classy.
▪ The Grand Union Hotel is one of the classiest hotels in this part of the country.
▪ Their wedding was a very classy affair.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Dodger great Don Newcombe heads up the public affairs department, one of the highlights of a top to bottom classy organization.
▪ It was, for the most part, a classy effort.
▪ She is a very classy woman.
▪ She is canny and classy, a more-than-capable combination of brains and beauty.
▪ That Cantona was too classy for Leeds.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
classy

classy \classy\ adj.

  1. having elegance or taste or refinement in manners or dress. Opposite of styleless. [informal]

    Syn: posh, swish, stylish.

  2. exhibiting refinement and high character. Opposite of low-class [informal]

    Syn: high-class. [PJC]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
classy

"pertaining to or characteristic of a (high) class," 1891, from class (n.) + -y (2). Related: Classily; classiness.

Wiktionary
classy

a. 1 elegant, highly stylish or fashionable. 2 Of a superior type; especially, exhibiting admirable personal qualities.

WordNet
classy
  1. adj. elegant and fashionable; "classy clothes"; "a classy dame"; "a posh restaurant"; "a swish pastry shop on the Rue du Bac"- Julia Child [syn: posh, swish]

  2. [also: classiest, classier]

Wikipedia
Classy

Classy may mean:

  • Possessing elegance, the attribute of being tastefully designed, decorated and maintaining refined grace and dignified propriety.
  • The acoustic version of "Baby Got Back" from the American television show "Glee"
  • Classy (magazine), a Japanese women's magazine
  • The nickname of professional wrestler Fred Blassie
Classy (magazine)

Monthly Classy Magazine is a Japanese women's magazine. Its title Classy is derived from the English adjective classy. It is estimated that the average reader of Classy magazine is between the age of 24 and 28. The magazine is known to be popular with office ladies (widely known as OL in Japan). It is also famous among university students as a magazine for fashion.

Usage examples of "classy".

Some specialize in active volcanoes, others in cliff diving, many go for the classier swimming-out-to-sea option.

The offices of Aces magazine were a lot classier than Jay had anticipated.

Laguna Plaza is an aging L-shaped strip mall, much classier than some, but a far cry from the massive retail stadiums being built these days.

UCLA than in the classiest hundred-thousand-dollar home in Orange County.

MPs hauled Bill to his feet, where he snapped off his classiest two-right-handed salute.

He was heading for Bal Harbor on Miami Beach where Figaro had told him there was an excellent shopping mall opposite a classy Sheraton, with the sea view he had stipulated.

He was overawed to find himself on the same platform as Georgia, already a bestseller, and another writer whose books had leapt to prominence on the back of a particularly classy TV adaptation.

In the cut-off world of big bikes, long runs and classy rumbles, this new, state-sanctioned stratification made the Hell's Angels very big.

All I had to do s turn up in London, wear some classy clothes, and pay a visit to one on the Tuesday morning.

Susan they all make up names, although they usually pick something classier than Sheena.

Wanda burgers and beer at one of the classier drive-ins, after which they moved on to what the newspapers called a swinging singles bar.

Focus-focus-focus, no point in becoming a traffic statistic when you have a classier demise on the way.

Chelsea hung up the phone, wrote the name of her firm, Classy Creations, on a memo pad placed by her bed.

But after she dressed, Alex drooled on her, and Jeff ended up driving her to Classy Creations.

The name Classy Creations was written in white neon over the etched-glass doors, giving no hint to what kind of business she owned.