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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Tasteful \Taste"ful\ (t[=a]st"f[.u]l), adjective
1. Having a high relish; savory. ''Tasteful herbs.'' --Pope.
2. Having or exhibiting good taste; in accordance with good taste; tasty; as, a tasteful drapery. -- {Taste"ful*ly}, adverb -- {Taste"ful*ness}, noun
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
tasteful
adjective
1: having or showing or conforming to good taste [syn: {in good taste(p)}] [ant: {tasteless}]
2: having flavor [ant: {tasteless}]
3: free from what is tawdry or unbecoming; "a neat style"; "a neat set of rules"; "she hated to have her neat plans upset" [syn: {neat}, {refined}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
72 Moby Thesaurus words for "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-chosen
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