stylistic

adjective

sty·​lis·​tic stī-ˈli-stik 

: of or relating especially to literary or artistic style

stylistically

stī-ˈli-sti-k(ə-)lē 

adverb

Examples of stylistic in a Sentence

There are a number of stylistic changes in the new car.

stylistic differences among various writers

Recent Examples on the Web

That doesn’t mean that all the art being made at Tunnel has a Miami theme or stylistic similarities. —Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 17 Apr. 2026

There have been a handful of stylistic variations on the Spirit Adrift formula over the years, and Infinite Illumination touches on most of them. —Brad Sanders, Pitchfork, 14 Apr. 2026

Head coach Jamahl Mosley has made some notable stylistic changes since Orlando’s five-game loss to Boston last spring, but his team still plays with the same physicality that battered the Celtics during that gentlemen’s sweep. —Zack Cox, Boston Herald, 13 Apr. 2026

Kawamura makes the point explicit late in the proceedings, with a hallucinatory outdoor sequence that briefly removes us from the train station altogether—easily the story’s most glaring structural and stylistic anomaly. —Justin Chang, New Yorker, 10 Apr. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1860, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for stylistic

• artistic
• autistic
• ballistic
• cladistic
• heuristic
• holistic
• linguistic
• logistic
• monistic
• patristic
• sadistic
• simplistic