Definition of: tasteful

(tāst′fəl) adjective
1. Conforming to taste.
2. Possessing good taste.
3. Savory: a rare use.
—taste′ful·ly adverb
—taste′ful·ness noun Synonyms: artistic, dainty, delicate, delicious, elegant, esthetic esthetical, exquisite, fastidious, fine, nice. That which is elegant is made so not merely by nature, but by art and culture. Nice and delicate both refer to exact adaptation to some standard; as regards matters of taste, delicate is a higher and more discriminating word than nice, and is always used in a favorable sense; a delicate distinction is one worth observing; a nice distinction may be so, or may be overstrained and unduly subtle. Esthetic or esthetical refers to beauty or the appreciation of the beautiful, especially from the philosophic point of view. Exquisite denotes the utmost perfection of the elegant in minute details; we speak of an elegant garment, an exquisite lace. Exquisite is also applied to intense keenness of any feeling; as, exquisite pain. Antonyms: clumsy, coarse, deformed, disgusting, displeasing, distasteful, fulsome, gaudy, grotesque, harsh, hideous, horrid, inartistic, inharmonious, meretricious, offensive, rude, tawdry.