classicadjective
uk/ˈklæs.ɪk/us/ˈklæs.ɪk/classic adjective (HIGH QUALITY)
B2 having a high quality or standard against which other things are judged:
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- Cullinan's tasty offering adds a personal touch to classic recipe.
- The advertising industry's use of classic songs is vandalism of popular culture, he said.
- I've always enjoyed reading classic novels.
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Extremely good
- admirable
- amazing
- ask for sb/sth
- award-winning
- awesome
- bowl
- brilliant
- incomparable
- incredible
- inspired
- irreplaceable
- life is just a bowl of cherries idiom
- outstanding
- parallel
- sterling
- superb
- superlatively
- supremacy
- supreme
- terrific
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classic adjective (EXTREMELY FUNNY/BAD)
informal extremely or unusually funny, bad, or annoying:
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Linguistics: very & extreme
- abject
- awful
- badly
- beyond
- classical
- devastating
- drop dead! idiom
- eminently
- esp
- especially
- heartily
- impossibly
- perfect
- rather
- sheer
- specially
- supremely
- thoroughly
- whole
- wide
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classic adjective (TYPICAL)
having all the characteristics or qualities that you expect:
informal disapproving bad or unpleasant, but not very surprising or unexpected:
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- He's got all the classic symptoms of a cold - the coughs and sneezes and the sore throat.
- It's a classic case of the bored-housewife syndrome - she's got nothing to do all day except drink and go shopping.
- Officials admit that the re-planting of the hillsides only started five years ago and seems to be a classic case of too little too late.
- I suffer from the classic working mother's guilt trip.
- Withdrawal is a classic symptom of depression.
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Samples and examples
- advertisement
- aliquot
- archetype
- benchmark
- classical
- core
- cross-section
- for instance idiom
- forerunner
- illustration
- instance
- job
- quintessence
- role model
- sample
- showpiece
- sort
- specimen
- swatch
- taste
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classic adjective (TRADITIONAL)
having a simple, traditional style that is always fashionable:
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Modern & fashionable
- be (all) the rage idiom
- be having a moment idiom
- be the last word in sth idiom
- be the new sth idiom
- futuristic
- get with the programme idiom
- happening
- high-tech
- hip
- hipster
- minute 1
- programme
- progressive
- sharp
- space-age
- state-of-the-art
- street cred
- swinger
- swinging
- à la mode
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classicnoun
uk/ˈklæs.ɪk/us/ˈklæs.ɪk/classic noun (HIGH QUALITY)
B2 [ C ] a piece of writing, a musical recording, or a film that is well known and of a high standard and lasting value:
the most famous works of literature:
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- Larkin's poems have become classics, taught in schools.
- His musical, based on a novel by Zola, became a classic.
- 'Anna Karenina' is a classic of Russian literature.
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Types of film, play, book etc.
- adaptation
- anime
- blockbuster
- epigram
- epistle
- film noir
- hagiography
- hokum
- indie
- lampoon
- mystery
- pastiche
- pastoral
- prose
- saga
- satire
- slow
- the big screen 1
- thriller
- vignette
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classic noun (STUDY)
the study of ancient Greek and Roman culture, especially their languages and literature:
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Subjects & disciplines
- andragogy
- AP
- applied
- art
- biology
- bioscience
- discipline
- esp
- food technology
- hard science
- home economics
- humanity
- modern languages
- physical education
- physical sciences
- psych
- psychology
- pure
- science
- women's studies
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classic noun (TRADITIONAL)
[ C ] a piece of clothing that is always fashionable:
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Clothing - general words
- all-in-one
- apparel
- argyle
- attire
- bespoke tailor
- coloured
- coordinate
- flare
- get up
- glad rags
- haberdashery
- hand-me-down
- haute couture
- separates
- suit
- Sunday best
- tailor
- tog
- tweed
- wear
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