Kevin Huynh, InStyle, 1 Feb. 2026 Certainly, fashion, whether in its haute -couture form or in the standardized sizes of ready-to-wear clothing, frequently feels as if it’s designed for impossible bodies.
HAUTE definition: high-class or high-toned; fancy. See examples of haute used in a sentence.
Word origin [1780–90; generalized from haute couture, haute cuisine, etc.; ‹ F, fem. of haut lit., high; see haughty]
- high-class or high-toned; fancy: an haute restaurant. 2. high; elevated; upper.
Adjective haute (comparative more haute, superlative most haute) high (especially in terms of fashion, cookery or anything considered to be typically French)
The Ville Haute, which is reached by staircases and steep narrow thoroughfares, is intersected by a long, quiet street, bordered by houses of the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries.
Synonyms for HAUTE: chic, ritzy, fashionable, posh, luxe, soigné, swank, stylish; Antonyms of HAUTE: unfashionable, tasteless, dowdy, inelegant, graceless, vulgar, trashy, uncouth
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