snazzy
adjective, colloquial

- modern and stylish in a way that attracts attention

Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary

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WORD ORIGIN

The origin of snazzy is unclear, but may have formed from snappy (chic) and jazzy (showy, flashy). It's an American expression that came into use in the 1930s.

Marketing professionals are fond of this adjective. Just about anything can be construed as snazzy; cars, clothing and jewellery of course, home furnishings, consumer electronics, computers.

CeBIT is billed as "the world's largest trade fair showcasing digital IT and telecommunications solutions for home and work environments". It's a great place to check out snazzy things. The computer world, once the sole domain of geeks and computer nerds, is now glamorous and glitzy.

Trade fairs like CeBIT and the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), "the world's largest annual tradeshow for consumer technology", now have the look and feel of Broadway productions.

Showing off flashy new devices with cool names and sleek designs that make us want to run out and buy one, computer CEOs have learned the meaning of snazzy.

When Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the new iPhone at the 2007 Macworld with the words "Every once in a while a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything", the audience broke into applause. It was a snazzy performance about a snazzy product.

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SYNONYMS

chic, classy, dapper, deluxe, exclusive, faddish, fancy, fashionable, flamboyant, flashy, glamorous, grand, lavish, luxurious, mod, natty, ostentatious, posh, pretentious, ritzy, sharp, showy, smart, snappy, splashy, stylish, swank, tony, trendy, with-it

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ANTONYMS

dowdy, dull, old-fashioned, unfashionable, unstylish

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SMUGGLE OWAD into a conversation, say something like:

"That's a really SNAZZY facemask. Where did you get it?"