Definition of fashionable
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:conforming to the custom, fashion, or established mode
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:of or relating to the world of fashion
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Examples of fashionable in a Sentence
It isn't fashionable to express such an opinion these days.
fashionable people who know all the right restaurants
Recent Examples of fashionable from the Web
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Performing a medley and accepting her Video Vanguard award, P!nk used her moment in the spotlight to make a fashionable statement.
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Hamilton, of course, was also famous for making the facemask fashionable in the NBA.
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Always a fashionable child, Cruise is really growing into her own sense of style—shaped, no doubt, by her always chic mother.
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Thursday’s confetti party exit marks the official end of Celine’s fashionable summer in Paris.
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This film, produced by the non-profit organization Americans for Peace and Tolerance, exposes how hatred and bigotry against Jewish and Israeli students is being made fashionable and normalized on American college campuses.
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My doctor has diagnosed me as suffering from an illness mentioned in Peter Simple that has not yet become fashionable in America.
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Trump was a boor from the start, probably from birth, but what made his campaign bracing was a unique defiance toward fashionable nonsense.
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The practice was later taken up by royalty across Europe and became highly fashionable.
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First Known Use of fashionable
circa 1580
fashionable Synonyms
Synonyms
à la mode (also a la mode), au courant, chic, cool [slang], exclusive, stylish, fresh [slang], happening, hip, in, modish, sharp, smart, snappy, supercool, swell, swish, trendy, voguishAntonyms
dowdy, out, outmoded, styleless, unchic, uncool, unfashionable, unmodish, unstylishRelated Words
downtown, edgy, funky; dapper, dashing, dressy, kicky, natty, rakish, sassy, saucy, spiffy, spruce; chichi, classy, flossy, haute (also haut), nobby, posh, ritzy, soigné (or soignée), swank (or swanky); elegant, graceful, handsome, majestic, refined, sophisticated, stately, tasteful, understated; doggish, doggy, flashy, gallant; dandyish, dudish, foppish; ultrachic, ultracool, ultrahip, ultraposh, ultrasmart, ultrasophisticatedNear Antonyms
cheesy, tacky, unattractive, unbecoming; graceless, inelegant, tasteless, trashy, unhandsome; frowsy (or frowzy), sloppy, slovenly, unkempt, untidy; disheveled (or dishevelled), messy, mussy, rumpled, wrinkled; shabby, sleazyFirst Known Use of fashionable
circa 1800
FASHIONABLE Defined for English Language Learners
fashionable
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adjective
Definition of fashionable for English Language Learners
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: currently popular
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: dressing and acting in a way that is currently popular
FASHIONABLE Defined for Kids
fashionable
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adjective
fash·ion·able
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Definition of fashionable for Students
:following the current fashion or style
- fashionable clothes
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fashionably
\-blē\ adverb- fashionably dressed
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