fashionable

pronunciation

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Adjective:

being or in accordance with current fashion
having elegance or taste or refinement in manners or dress
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Word Origin

fashionable (adj.): c. 1600, "capable of being fashioned," also "conforming to prevailing tastes," from fashion + -able. From 1620s as "stylish;" as a noun, "person of fashion," from 1800. Related: Fashionably.

Synonym

adj.

silk-stocking high-class dressy flashy high-toned

adj.

prevailing customary general

adj.

smart mod natty popular trendy new hip modish chic dapper modern up-to-the-minute spruce up-to-date stylish

adj.

aristocratic well-bred genteel graceful gentlemanlike gracious polished finished gentlemanly ladylike refined courtly well-mannered

Antonym

adj.

Example

1. Fashionable japanese are sniffy about uniqlo 's cheap clothes .

2. Few would deny that shanghai is the more fashionable city .

3. Fashionable ideas about interdependence get short shrift .

4. Applied to currently fashionable theory , his attitude is justified .

5. Wear a fashionable suit or dressy tailored separates .

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