fashionableadj.n.
/ˈfaʃ(ə)nəbl/, /ˈfaʃn̩əbl/, U.S. /ˈfæʃ(ə)nəb(ə)l/ A. adj.† 1. † b. Conformable to. Obsolete.† 2. Pertaining to outward form or ceremony; merely formal. Obsolete. (Cf. fashion n. 7.)† 3. Of a good fashion or appearance; goodlooking, stylish. Also, fashionable-like. Obsolete.
a. Capable of being fashioned, shaped, or moulded. Const. to, unto. Of a damaged article: Capable of being brought into shape. Obsolete.
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the world > space > shape > [adjective] > able to be shaped
formable1495
workable1545
fashionable1607
plastic1791
society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > mending or repairing > [adjective] > able to be mended or repaired
reparable1555
repairable1561
fashionable1607
mendable1638
1607 S. Hieron Discouerie of Hypocrisie in Wks. (1620) I. 238 Hee that..can endure the hewing, and groweth more and more fashionable vnto good things.
1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. xvi. 655/2 Nine yeeres olde, a most fashionable and waxen age for all impression.
1614 T. Jackson Third Bk. Comm. Apostles Creede 64 Peters..power by them [sc. keys]..to exclude al that were not fashionable to this Rocke and corner stone.
1623 J. Rowlandson Gods Blessing 27 Could the iron be pliable and fashionable to the minde of the smith.
1656 in J. A. Picton City of Liverpool: Select. Munic. Rec. (1883) I. 152 Some cups are broken and not fashionable.
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the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > conformity to or with a pattern, etc. > [adjective]
followingc1400
conformable1526
conform1553
pursuant1593
conformala1645
fashionable1657
persecutory1774
1657 R. Carpenter Astrol. Proved Harmless 15 It is most fashionable to Reason, That Job, by Musick..understands [etc.].
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the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > conformity to or with a pattern, etc. > [adjective] > conforming to a standard rule > conforming to prescribed forms > merely
fashional?1607
fashionable1608
fashionarya1640
formal1649
pro forma1823
formalistic1856
formalist1900
1608 Bp. J. Hall Pharisaisme & Christianity 61 A fashionable obseruation of the outward letter.
1616 S. Ward Coal from Altar (1627) 47 No maruell if his seruice be formall and fashionable.
1616 S. Ward Coal from Altar (1627) 82 To confess the truth of the fashionable Christian.
1633 Bp. J. Hall Plaine Explic. Hard Texts ii. 110 His fashionable disciples..went away from him.
1651 Bp. J. Hall Susurrium cum Deo lxxiii. 270 Not that wee should..fall suddainly into a fashionable Devotion.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > pleasing appearance > [adjective]
faireOE
comelyOE
winlyOE
goodlyOE
hendya1250
hendc1275
quaintc1300
seemlyc1305
tidya1325
avenant1340
honestc1384
sightya1387
properc1390
well beseena1393
queema1400
speciousa1400
featousc1400
parisantc1400
rekenc1400
well-favoureda1438
wellc1450
spectable?a1475
delicatec1480
jollya1500
bonny?a1513
snog1513
viewlyc1536
goodlikec1550
sightly1555
sightful1565
beholdinga1586
eyesome?1587
decent1600
vage1604
prospicuous1605
eyely1614
fashionable1630
well-looking1638
softa1643
fineish1647
well-looked1660
of a good (also ugly, etc.) look1700
likely-looked1709
sonsy1720
smiling1725
aspectable1731
smirkya1758
likely-looking1771
respectable1776
magnificent-looking1790
producible1792
presentable1800
good-looking1804
nice-looking1807
bonnyish1855
spick1882
eyeable1887
aegyo2007
1630 tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdomes World (rev. ed.) 135 We have fashionable attendance.
1664 B. Gerbier Counsel to Builders (new ed.) i. sig. c8 Some of them Bear-like-whelps (by licking and smoothing) have gotten some fashionable like shape.
1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 246 A Cap..made of a Hare-skin, very convenient, and fashionable enough.
1720 London Gaz. No. 5865/4 A light dapple grey Nag..fashionable and full aged.
4. absolute.1791 H. More Estimate Relig. Fashionable World 1 The polite and the fashionable.
a. Of persons: Observant of or following the fashion; dressing or behaving in conformity with the standard of elegance current in upper-class society.
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the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [adjective] > fashion-conscious or following fashion
fashion-monging1600
fashionable1609
fashionly1613
modish1652
mody1701
knowing1768
fadding1864
downtown1914
cool1918
fashion-conscious1951
switched-on1964
trendoid1979
fresh1984
kewl1990
1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida iii. iii. 159 A fashionable hoast..slightly shakes his parting guest by th'hand. View more context for this quotation
1609 W. M. Man in Moone sig. F4 A finicall fellow he is, and very fashionable.
1738 Ld. Chesterfield in Common Sense 11 Feb. Taste is now the fashionable Word of the fashionable World.
1816 Brief Remarks Eng. Manners 86 Nor do I believe a less fashionable man would have paid any attention.
1845 Florist's Jrnl. 6 139 A numerous and fashionable company.
1892 Speaker 30 July 141/1 Reviewers are apt to be..slavishly fashionable in adjectives.
b. Of things, esp. dress: Conformable to fashion; in accordance with prevailing usage; of the kind in vogue among persons of the upper class. Of immaterial things: Approved by custom, generally accepted, current (now in depreciatory sense).
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the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [adjective]
in (also into) request?1574
bonfacion1584
fashional?1607
of request1613
fashionablea1627
à la mode1642
all the mode1651
modish1661
in mode1664
timeish1676
of vogue1678
voguea1695
mody1701
alamodic1753
much the mode1767
tonish1778
go1784
stylish1800
bang-up1810
tippy1810
varmint1823
up to the knocker1844
gyvera1866
OK1869
fly1879
swagger1879
doggy1885
faddy1885
fantoosh1920
voguish1927
voguey1928
à la page1930
go1937
hard1938
hip1939
down1952
swinging1958
a-go-go1960
way-in1960
yé-yé1960
trendy1962
with-it1962
go-go1963
happening1965
mod1965
funky1967
together1968
fash1977
cred1987
society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > customs, values, or beliefs of a society or group > [adjective]
useda1500
customary1569
fashionablea1627
the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > [adjective] > general or prevalent
commona1325
generala1393
usual1396
popular?a1425
riveda1513
vulgarc1550
current1563
afloat1571
widespread1582
penny-rife1606
catholic1607
spacious1610
epidemical1614
epidemial1616
epidemic1617
prevailent1623
regnant1623
fashionablea1627
wide-spreading1655
endemical1658
prevalent1658
endemiala1682
obtaining1682
prevailing1682
endemious1684
sterling1696
running1697
(as) common as dirt (also muck)1737
prevailant1794
exoteric1814
endemic1852
widish1864
prolate1882
going1909
the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [adjective] > usual or customary > in usual or customary use
current1593
fashionablea1627
a1627 W. Sclater Brief Comm. Malachy (1650) 103 It..was grown so fashionable, that it seemed to be no sin.
1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre iii. vi. 119 His..attire more fashionable.
1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine ii. viii. 177 Such chariots were..fashionable in their fights.
1665 J. Glanvill Scepsis Scientifica Addr. Royal Soc. sig. b2 The eminence of your condition..will..make Philosophy fashionable.
1668 T. Rokeby Let. 6 Oct. in Brief Mem. (1861) 17 A rideing cloake of ye best worsted camlett of a fashionable sorte.
1700 J. Dryden tr. Ovid Pygmalion in Fables 167 Fashionable Robes her Person deck.
1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall III. 229 The fashionable opinions of the court.
1823 C. Lamb Dream-children in Elia 231 A newer and more fashionable mansion.
1825 J. Neal Brother Jonathan II. 329 A fashionable dress.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 515 Artificial ringlets clustering in fashionable profusion round his shoulders.
1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt I. xi. 241 His illusions..were not of a fashionable sort.
5.
a. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of persons of fashion.
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society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > fashionable society > [adjective]
townishc1450
of mode1676
fashionable1712
smart1719
high-lifed1733
social1741
high-lived1757
West Endish1855
Fifth Avenue1858
mundane1904
societified1912
Park Avenue1923
1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 504. ⁋4 These rascals..carried it with a fashionable haughty air.
1791 H. More Estimate Relig. Fashionable World 221 That mode of life emphatically distinguished by the appellation of fashionable.
1884 J. Hall Christian Home 75 A hollow and conventional ‘fashionable life’.
b. Treating of the world of fashion.
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society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > fashionable society > [adjective] > treating of
fashionable1834
1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus iii. x, in Fraser's Mag. Aug. 185/2 Nor are Sacred Books wanting to the Sect [of the Dandies]; these they call Fashionable Novels.
1882 C. Pebody Eng. Journalism xi. 78 The Morning Post..made a name for itself by its fresh and sparkling paragraphs of Court and fashionable gossip.
c. Frequented or patronized by people of fashion.
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society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > fashionable society > [adjective] > frequented by
in season1718
fashionable1815
1815 tr. Duc de Lévis Eng. at Beginning 19th Cent. i. 170 Ranelagh pleases them much: it is even called fashionable [Fr. il recoit même l'épithète defashionable].
1838 R. W. Emerson Oration before Lit. Societies 21 In fashionable or political saloons.
1840 T. Hood Up Rhine 40 The Waal branch of the fashionable river.
1847 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) xviii. 178 Burgess & Co.,—fashionable tailors (but very dear).
1877 A. K. Johnston Dict. Geogr. 1234/1 Scarborough..is now the most fashionable watering-place on the N.E. coast.
1881 M. E. Herbert Edith 1 And drew up at a door in a fashionable quarter.
B. n.
A fashionable person. Chiefly in plural.
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the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [noun] > the or a prevailing fashion > fashionable thing or craze
new fangle1548
furor1704
fever1761
rage1780
go1784
the fashion1790
furore1790
fashionablea1800
craze1813
delirament1856
fad1881
fash1895
new thinga1911
flu1943
kick1946
society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > fashionable society > [noun] > member of
(man, woman) of fashion1702
fashionablea1800
taste-meter1814
presentee1822
societarian1841
viveur1845
fashion-fly1868
socialite1909
celebutante1939
jet-setter1959
Sloanie1982
a1800 T. Bellamy Beggar Boy (1801) I. 178 All the fashionables in town.
1800 H. Wells Constantia Neville I. 240 That he was merely a fashionable, she could not believe.
1800 Sporting Mag. 15 265 Our fair fashionables.
1834 T. Medwin Angler in Wales II. 150 Fashionables of all countries.
1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair xlix. 437 A very pleasing and witty fashionable.
1883 E. Lynn Linton Girl of Period II. 11 She will probably end her days as a frantic Fashionable.
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