Classical vs. Classy: What's the Difference?

Of or relating to the ancient Greeks and Romans, especially their art, architecture, and literature.

Highly stylish; elegant.

Conforming to the artistic and literary models of ancient Greece and Rome.

Elegant, highly stylish or fashionable.

Versed in the classics

Of a superior type; especially, exhibiting admirable personal qualities.

Of or relating to European music during the latter half of the 18th and the early 19th centuries.

Having elegance or taste or refinement in manners or dress. Opposite of styleless.

Of or relating to music in the educated European tradition, such as symphony and opera, as opposed to popular or folk music.

Exhibiting refinement and high character. Opposite of low-class

Of, relating to, or being a variety of a language that is epitomized by a prestigious body of literature.

Elegant and fashionable;

Standard and traditional

Relating to or being a school of thought or field of study that is established and widely accepted before others

Of or relating to physics that can be described without the use of quantum mechanics or relativity.

Relating to or consisting of studies in the humanities and general sciences

Of or relating to the first class or rank, especially in literature or art.

Of or pertaining to established principles in a discipline.

(music) Describing Western music and musicians of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

Describing art music (rather than pop, jazz, blues, etc), especially when played using instruments of the orchestra.

Of or pertaining to the ancient Greeks and Romans, especially to Greek or Roman authors of the highest rank, or of the period when their best literature was produced; of or pertaining to places inhabited by the ancient Greeks and Romans, or rendered famous by their deeds.

Knowledgeable or skilled in the classics; versed in the classics.

Conforming to the best authority in literature and art; chaste; pure; refined

(physics) Pertaining to models of physical laws that do not take quantum or relativistic effects into account; Newtonian or Maxwellian.

(countable) One that is classical in some way; for example, a classical economist.

(chess) classical chess

Of or characteristic of a form or system felt to be of first significance before modern times

Of recognized authority or excellence;