styled

1. 1
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of style.

   The team styled the entire photo shoot around a 1950s theme.

   His beard was neatly styled for the interview.

   Note

   Behind the everyday past tense of arranging and designing sits a formal one. Style can also mean to give someone a name or title, so styled can introduce what a person is called: he styled himself a poet; the ruler was styled king. In that use it takes an object followed by the name, much like named or titled, and it sounds formal rather than chatty.

2. 2
   adjective

   Arranged and set deliberately into a particular fixed shape or position.

   The bride's elegantly styled updo took nearly an hour to complete.

   Each mannequin in the window wore a sharply styled wig.

   Similararranged, shaped, sculpted, groomed, set

   Oppositemessy, tousled, disheveled, unkempt

3. 3
   adjectivein compounds

   Having a flower style (the slender stalk connecting the ovary to the stigma) of the kind named by the preceding word.

   Botanists found that the long-styled flowers were more common in the shaded valleys.

   In this species, short-styled and long-styled plants rarely cross without help from insects.

   Note

   A botanist's word that almost never stands alone. It is fused to a qualifier, as in long-styled or short-styled. Style here is the column of flower tissue through which pollen tubes grow, not fashion, so the compound has nothing to do with the hairdresser's adjective. Species whose plants carry distinct long-styled and short-styled flowers are called heterostylous, and that contrast is where the word is most often used.

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