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style clothes elegant stylish casual worn scruffy, shabby flashy extravagant sober drab cheap-looking looks female a stunner a beauty, ‘a babe’ (BE, inf.) a looker a plain woman, (BE), a homely woman (AE) not much of a looker ravishing, stunning beautiful attractive, pretty plain (BE), homely (AE) unattractive male a looker ‘a bit of talent’, ‘a babe’ (BE, inf.) bland ordinary nondescript ‘dishy’ handsome, good-looking not bad not too bad unattractive status class rich well-off fairly well-off struggling on welfare (AE); on benefits (BE) posh upper middle class middle-class middle class needy, poor civilisation settlements (sprawling) conurbation (a big) city suburb town village, hamlet city centre, ‘downtown’ urban suburbia on the outskirts (over-) crowded bustling busy quiet deserted buildings high-rise (block) house shack (primitive) shelter castle mansion family home small flat, bedsitter mobile home, trailer nature landscape mountainous hilly rolling gently undulating flat land fertile, rich arable semi-arid dry, arid, poor barren region tropical sub-tropical moderate harsh arctic temperature hot warm nice rough icy rain cloudburst, thunderstorm downpour rain, sleet, snow drizzle shower effects harmonious [-‘---] pleasant easy (on the ear) monotonous [-‘---] grating, jarring lighting blinding dazzling bright gloomy (pitch-) dark vision visibility at the first light in broad daylight in twilight in the dark in pitch darkness haze mist fog pea-soup (BE); smog – –