单词 | fashionable |
释义 | fashionable (once / 375 pages) adj Something that's fashionable is in style. Your cousin might insist that wearing wide-brimmed fishing hats is very fashionable right now. Things that are very trendy or popular are fashionable, whether they're a brand of jeans or a particular baked good that everyone seems to be eating. A person who follows these trends can also be described as fashionable: "Did you see John walk by wearing those yellow boots and eating a huge doughnut? He's so fashionable." The noun fashion is at the root of fashionable, with its Old French origin, façon, "face, appearance, design, or beauty." WORD FAMILYfashionable: fashionably, unfashionable+/fashion: fashionable, fashioned, fashioning, fashions, refashion/fashioned: fashionedest, fashionedly/fashioning: fashionings/refashion: refashioned, refashioning, refashions/unfashionable: unfashionably USAGE EXAMPLESAfter the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991, it became fashionable to talk of the United States as the only true superpower. Washington Post(Jan 01, 2017) So we saw not so much of the Piazza del Duomo, quite a lot of the Talbot dealer in the less fashionable outskirts. The Guardian(Dec 28, 2016) In my little corner of Brooklyn, ambient feminism appeared to influence the way fashionable young women dressed. Slate(Dec 27, 2016) 1adj being or in accordance with current social fashions fashionable clothing the fashionable side of town a fashionable cafe Syn|Ant stylish a la mode, in style, in vogue, latest, modish in the current fashion or style coolfashionable and attractive at the time; often skilled or socially adept dapper, dashing, jaunty, natty, raffish, rakish, snappy, spiffy, sprucemarked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners faddish, faddyintensely fashionable for a short time groovy, swagger(British informal) very chic incurrently fashionable cutting-edge, up-to-date, with-itin accord with the most fashionable ideas or style mod, modern, modernisticrelating to a recently developed fashion or style old-time, olde worlde, quaintattractively old-fashioned (but not necessarily authentic) swank, swankyimposingly fashionable and elegant trend-setting, trendsettinginitiating or popularizing a trend trendy, voguishin accord with the latest fad unfashionable, unstylish not in accord with or not following current fashion antique, demode, ex, old-fashioned, old-hat, outmoded, passe, passeeout of fashion datedmarked by features of the immediate and usually discounted past dowdy, frumpish, frumpyprimly out of date fogyish, moss-grown, mossy, stick-in-the-mud, stodgy(used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned outno longer fashionable prehistoricno longer fashionable oldof long duration; not new 2adj having elegance or taste or refinement in manners or dress Syn|Ant stylish chic, smart, voguish elegant and stylish chichiaffectedly trendy and fashionable classy, posh, swishelegant and fashionable snazzyflashily stylish styleless, unstylish lacking in style or elegance dowdylacking in smartness or taste 3adj patronized by Syn popular regarded with great favor, approval, or affection especially by the general public |
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