1
: smart elegance and sophistication especially of dress or manner : style
wears her clothes with superb chic
2
: a distinctive mode of dress or manner associated with a fashionable lifestyle, ideology, or pursuit
wearing the latest in urban chic
New Age chic
3
: a faddishly popular quality or appeal
also
: something (such as a practice or interest) having such appeal
the transient tides of academic chic —
Irving Kristol
Irving Kristol
chicer; chicest
1
: cleverly stylish : smart
the woman who is chic adapts fashion to her own personality—Elizabeth L. Post
Elizabeth L. Post2
: currently fashionable
a chic restaurant
chic boutiques
chicly
adverb
chicness
noun
Examples of chic in a Sentence
Noun
It's the height of chic this year.
mockumentaries are the latest filmmaking chic
Adjective
The café has a chic new look.
a chic new hairstyle that makes her look very sophisticated
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Blue Carreon, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2025
Walking by its table of late Eighties Soviet chic, in pieces.
—Marianne Boruch, The New York Review of Books, 20 Feb. 2025
Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 18 Apr. 2025
Highlands Highlands is famously one of North Carolina’s chicest mountain towns—complete with luxury hotels (looking at you, Old Edwards Inn & Spa), unique boutique properties (like Highlander Mountain House and Outpost Inn), and a main street populated with charming galleries and boutiques.
—Lydia Mansel, Southern Living, 18 Apr. 2025
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Noun
In creating this room, the designers were successful in presenting a fresh take on Palm Beach chic.
—Blue Carreon, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2025
Walking by its table of late Eighties Soviet chic, in pieces.
—Marianne Boruch, The New York Review of Books, 20 Feb. 2025
Adjective
But from Audrey Hepburn in Sabrina to Carrie Bradshaw and, unashamedly, this writer right here, the case has been made time and time again for the chic capri.
—Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 18 Apr. 2025
Highlands Highlands is famously one of North Carolina’s chicest mountain towns—complete with luxury hotels (looking at you, Old Edwards Inn & Spa), unique boutique properties (like Highlander Mountain House and Outpost Inn), and a main street populated with charming galleries and boutiques.
—Lydia Mansel, Southern Living, 18 Apr. 2025
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“Chic.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chic. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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