FASHIONABLE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does fashionable mean?
• FASHIONABLE (adjective)
The adjective FASHIONABLE has 3 senses:
1. being or in accordance with current social fashions
2. having elegance or taste or refinement in manners or dress
3. patronized by
Familiarity information: FASHIONABLE used as an adjective is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
• FASHIONABLE (adjective)
Meaning:
Being or in accordance with current social fashions
Synonyms:
fashionable; stylish
Context examples:
fashionable clothing / the fashionable side of town / a fashionable cafe
Similar:
a la mode; in style; in vogue; latest; modish (in the current fashion or style)
trendy; voguish (in accord with the latest fad)
trend-setting; trendsetting (initiating or popularizing a trend)
swank; swanky (imposingly fashionable and elegant)
old-time; olde worlde; quaint (attractively old-fashioned (but not necessarily authentic))
mod; modern; modernistic (relating to a recently developed fashion or style)
cutting-edge; up-to-date; with-it (in accord with the most fashionable ideas or style)
in (currently fashionable)
groovy; swagger ((British informal) very chic)
faddish; faddy (intensely fashionable for a short time)
dapper; dashing; jaunty; natty; raffish; rakish; snappy; spiffy; spruce (marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners)
cool (fashionable and attractive at the time; often skilled or socially adept)
Antonym:
unfashionable (not in accord with or not following current fashion)
Meaning:
Having elegance or taste or refinement in manners or dress
Synonyms:
stylish; fashionable
Context examples:
a little less posh but every bit as stylish as Lord Peter Wimsey / the stylish resort of Gstadd
Similar:
snazzy (flashily stylish)
classy; posh; swish (elegant and fashionable)
chichi (affectedly trendy and fashionable)
chic; smart; voguish (elegant and stylish)
Meaning:
Patronized by
Similar:
popular (regarded with great favor, approval, or affection especially by the general public)
