Word Study
tasteful
CIDE DICTIONARY
tasteful, a.
- Having a high relish; savory. Pope. [1913 Webster]
- Having or exhibiting good taste; in accordance with good taste; tasty; as, a tasteful drapery. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
tasteful, adj. having, or done in, good taste.
Derivative
tastefully adv. tastefulness n.
THESAURUS
tasteful
Attic, Ciceronian, aesthetic, appetizing, art-conscious, artistic, arty, beautiful, charming, chaste, choice, classic, clear, comme il faut, correct, cultivated, decorous, direct, discriminating, discriminative, easy, elegant, excellent, fastidious, finished, fit, fitting, flavorsome, good-tasting, graceful, gracile, harmonious, in good taste, limpid, lucid, mouth-watering, natural, neat, of choice, of consummate art, of quality, ornamental, painterly, pellucid, perspicuous, plain, pleasing, polished, polite, proper, pure, quiet, refined, relishing, restrained, rich, round, sapid, savory, simple, straightforward, subdued, tactful, tasty, terse, toothsome, trim, unaffected, understated, unlabored, unobtrusive, well-chosenROGET THESAURUS
tasteful
Taste
N taste, good taste, refined taste, cultivated taste, delicacy, refinement, fine feeling, gust, gusto, tact, finesse, nicety, to prepon, polish, elegance, grace, judgment, discernment, dilettantism, dilettanteism, virtu, fine art, culture, cultivation, aesthetics, man of taste, connoisseur, judge, critic, conoscente, virtuoso, amateur, dilettante, Aristarchus, Corinthian, arbiter elegantiarum, stagirite, euphemist, caviare to the general, in good taste, cute, tasteful, tasty, unaffected, pure, chaste, classical, attic, cultivated, refined, dainty, esthetic, aesthetic, artistic, elegant, euphemistic, to one's taste, to one's mind, after one's fancy, comme il faut, tire a quatre epingles, elegantly, nihil tetigit quod non ornavit, chacun a son gout, oculi pictura tenentur aures cantibus, taste, flavor, gust, gusto, savor, gout, relish, sapor, sapidity, twang, smack, smatch, aftertaste, tang, tasting, degustation, gustation, palate, tongue, tooth, stomach, sapid, saporific, gustable, gustatory, gustful, strong, gamy, palatable.For further exploring for "tasteful" in Webster Dictionary Online