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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Hilton Als, New Yorker, 30 June 2025
In the 1990s, heroin chic surged in popularity as women flooded law schools, boardrooms, and newsrooms in record numbers — a visual counterpunch to female ambition.
—Anne Marie Chaker, Time, 18 June 2025
AFAR Media, 11 July 2025
And a historic aristocratic club turned chic boutique hotel is the place to stay.
—Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner, Forbes.com, 11 July 2025
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Noun
Preppy chic wasn’t much of a thing in that neighborhood, though.
—Hilton Als, New Yorker, 30 June 2025
In the 1990s, heroin chic surged in popularity as women flooded law schools, boardrooms, and newsrooms in record numbers — a visual counterpunch to female ambition.
—Anne Marie Chaker, Time, 18 June 2025
Adjective
For a minimalist, chic hideaway, stay at Le Cameleon Boutique Hotel, with its 23 remarkably white rooms.
—AFAR Media, 11 July 2025
And a historic aristocratic club turned chic boutique hotel is the place to stay.
—Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner, Forbes.com, 11 July 2025
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“Chic.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chic. Accessed 15 Jul. 2025.
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