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unfashionable /ʌnˈfaʃ(ə)nəb(ə)l /adjectiveNot fashionable or popular at a particular time: they lived in an unfashionable part of London...- Apparently, this is an unfashionable part of fashionable Takapuna.
- It always seemed to me inexplicable that someone like Waterhouse was so popular, yet so unfashionable.
- Their writing gets fashionable, then unfashionable, then fashionable again.
Synonyms out of fashion, out of date, outdated, old-fashioned, outmoded, out of style, dated, behind the times, last year's, yesterday's, unpopular, unstylish, superseded, archaic, obsolete, antiquated; bygone, old-fangled, crusty, olde worlde, prehistoric, antediluvian; French passé, démodé informal old hat, out, square, out of the ark Derivatives unfashionableness /ʌnˈfaʃnəblnəs/ noun ...- But its unfashionableness comes out when you consider its contraries - for example, impulsiveness and outspokenness.
- History, however, has stripped Bach's music of any whiff of temporal unfashionableness and revealed, magnificently, its genius.
- He argues that the definitive quality is his very unfashionableness, his being out of the mainstream of his or any time.
unfashionably /ʌnˈfaʃnəbli / adverb ...- Rather unfashionably, I was really interested in education.
- And like Harry, I believe - unfashionably enough - that a strong and democratic labor movement can help make the world a better place for many more people than it is now.
- Emma Watson, who has been brought up by a well-to-do aunt, returns to her family, who live unfashionably in genteel poverty in a Surrey village.
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