good taste
Elegance in choices
Good taste is the ability to recognize and appreciate what is aesthetically pleasing, socially appropriate, or of high quality.
Someone with good taste chooses well—in art, clothing, food, decor, or behavior.
The phrase often implies refinement: She has good taste in wine.
What counts as good taste varies by culture and era, though the term suggests objective standards exist.
In good taste (or bad taste) describes whether something is appropriate or offensive: The joke was in poor taste.
- aestheticConcerning beauty or art
- refinementElegance of manner
- discernmentKeen perception and judgment
- sophisticationCultured elegance and complexity
- eleganceRefined, graceful quality
delicacy · style · connoisseurship · finesse · je ne sais quoi · cultivation · decorum · discrimination · savoir-faire · perception · discretion · beauty · gracefulness · harmony · poise · propriety · class act · cultured
- etiquettemanners, politeness, etiquette, table manners, courtesy
- aestheticsaesthetics, aesthetic, beauty, beautiful, ugly
- elegantchic, stylish, refined, elegant, classy
- proprietydecorum, decency, propriety, correctness, suitability
- refinementrefinement, elegance, sophistication, polish, cultivation
- stylestyle, stylish, chic, elegant, stylishness
good tastepoor taste
Deficient aesthetic judgment
tastelessness · vulgarity · tackiness · gaudiness · garishness
good tastepoor taste
Deficient aesthetic judgment
tastelessness · impropriety · crassness · indecency · indelicacy
good tastephilistinism
Contempt for cultural refinement
uncouthness · unsophistication · barbarism · boorishness · vulgarity
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