fashionable
fashionable is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 4 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Established or favored by custom or use; current; prevailing at a particular time; as, the fashionable philosophy; fashionable opinions.
- 2.Observant of the fashion or customary mode; dressing or behaving according to the prevailing fashion; as, a fashionable man.
- 3.Genteel; well-bred; as, fashionable society. Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand. Shak.
- 4.A person who conforms to the fashions; -- used chiefly in the plural.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- afresh
- ago
- and
- anew
- bene
- brand-new
- daisy
- date
- day
- dictum
- est
- evergreen
- fashion
- fire-new
- fresh
- gloss
- green
- hip
- immature
- immaturity
- innovation
- jam
- just
- late
- lately
- latterly
- long
- minute
- modern
- modernism
- modernize
- mushroom
- nascent
- neoteric
- new
- newly
- newness
- non
- not
- novel
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
Related questions
Reverse-dictionary questions
Definition-first questions whose answer is fashionable.
- What is established or favored by custom or use; current; prevailing at a particular time; as, the fashionable philosophy; fashionable opinions called?
- What is observant of the fashion or customary mode; dressing or behaving according to the prevailing fashion; as, a fashionable man called?
- What is genteel; well-bred; as, fashionable society. Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand. Shak called?
- What is a person who conforms to the fashions; -- used chiefly in the plural called?
Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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