Fashionable

//ˈfæʃənəbl̩// adj, noun

adj, noun ·Common ·High school level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A fashionable person; a fop.

    "Just as I was stepping up to offer my hand to a very pleasing and witty fashionable, the brilliant and exclusive Mrs. Rawdon Crawley,"—he wrote […]"

Adjective
  1. 1
    Characteristic of or influenced by a current popular trend or style; in fashion; in vogue.

    "a fashionable dress"

  2. 2
    Established or favoured by custom or use; current; prevailing at a particular time.

    "the fashionable philosophy"

  3. 3
    genteel; well-bred archaic

    "fashionable society"

Adjective
  1. 1
    being or in accordance with current social fashions wordnet
  2. 2
    having elegance or taste or refinement in manners or dress wordnet
  3. 3
    popular and considered appealing or fashionable at the time wordnet

Synonyms

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dashinginin fashionmodernisticstylishstyleworthy

Example

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"Thus, internationalization has become a fashionable slogan for the Japanese."

Etymology

From fashion + -able.

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