Unfashionable

adj

adj ·5 syllables ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Not fashionable.

    "The fashionable intelligence says so for the comfort of the Parisians, and it knows all fashionable things. To know things otherwise were to be unfashionable."

  2. 2
    That cannot be fashioned; unshapely, distorted. obsolete

    "I, that am rudely stamp'd, and want love's majesty To strut before a wanton ambling nymph; I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deformed, unfinish'd, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them ..."

Adjective
  1. 1
    not in accord with or not following current fashion wordnet
  2. 2
    unpopular and considered unappealing or unfashionable at the time wordnet

Synonyms

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Example

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"Decorated with blue and yellow stripes, the tie was very unfashionable."

Etymology

From un- + fashionable.

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