Other forms: classiest, classier
Classy means stylish and of evident quality. A classy performance, very classy, a classy hotel.
It is informal praise, and it works for behaviour as much as for things — a classy response to defeat means a gracious one. There is an irony in the word: calling something classy is not itself the mark of high class, which is part of its charm.
1adjectiveclassyStylish and of evident quality.
“They had dinner at a classy restaurant with white tablecloths and silver candlesticks.”
classy is a quality of style.
Also accepted in games: elegant
Class plus -y, from Latin classis, a division of the Roman people. The social sense of class came first and the compliment grew from it.
Latin
classis
Middle French
classe
English
class
English, today
classy
From class + y. classic. class Borrowed from Middle French classe, from Latin classis. From Middle French classe, from Latin classis (“a class or division of the people, assembly of people, the whole body of citizens called to arms, the army, the fleet, later a class or division in general”), from Proto-Indo-European kelh₁- (“to call, shout”). a doublet of clas and classis. ġecynd.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA