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fashion

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of fashion

1 a practice or interest that is very popular for a short time

during the 1990s tattoos once again became a hot fashion especially for young men

Synonyms of fashion

buzz, chic, craze, dernier cri, enthusiasm, fad, flavor, go, hot ticket, last word, latest, mode, rage, sensation, style, ton, trend, vogue

Words Related to fashion

nine days' wonder (also nine day wonder)

crush, infatuation

fervor, passion

furor, fuss, hullabaloo, to-do, uproar

bandwagon, crusade, cult, movement

novelty, wrinkle

caprice, fancy, whim

Near Antonyms of fashion

classic, standard

2 a distinctive way of putting ideas into words

when angry, he tends to express himself in a fashion that shows that he has a mastery of all of the expletives in which the English language abounds

Synonyms of fashion

locution, manner, mode, phraseology, style, tone, vein

Words Related to fashion

address, delivery, elocution

archaism, colloquialism, regionalism

acceptation, connotation, denotation, expression, idiom

3 a usual manner of behaving or doing

it has long been my fashion to rise early

Synonyms of fashion

custom, habit, habitude, pattern, practice (also practise), ritual, second nature, trick, way, wont

Words Related to fashion

bent, inclination, proclivity, set, tendency, tenor, turn

bag, convention, form, mode, style

deportment, manners, mores

drill, groove, jog trot, regime (also régime), regimen, rote, routine, rut

affectation, airs, pose

attribute, characteristic, mark, trait

eccentricity, kink, oddity, peculiarity, quirk, singularity, tic

4 the means or procedure for doing something

you can mix the ingredients in any fashion you choose—by hand or by machine

Synonyms of fashion

approach, form, how, manner, method, methodology, recipe, strategy, style, system, tack, tactics, technique, way

Words Related to fashion

mode, modus operandi

blueprint, design, game, game plan, ground plan, intrigue, layout, line, model, plan, plot, program, route, scheme

expedient, move, shift, step

practice (also practise), process, routine

5 high position within society

a literary salon attended by people of fashion from all over the city

Synonyms of fashion

class, dignity, quality, rank, standing, state

Words Related to fashion

gentility, gentleness, nobility, nobleness

grandness, highness, loftiness

distinction, dominance, precedence, preeminence, primacy, superiority

caste, station, status

Near Antonyms of fashion

debasement, degradation

subordinateness, subordination

baseness, commonness, inferiority, lowliness, lowness

6 the outward appearance of something as distinguished from its substance

over the millennia, nature had worked the face of the rocky cliff into the fashion of a man's head

Synonyms of fashion

cast, configuration, conformation, figure, form, geometry, shape

Words Related to fashion

contour, outline, profile, silhouette

frame, framework, shell, skeleton

arrangement, design, format, layout, makeup, organization, pattern, plan, setup

Near Antonyms of fashion

composition, material, matter, raw material, stuff, substance

Synonym Discussion of fashion

fashion, style, mode, vogue, fad, rage, craze mean the usage accepted by those who want to be up-to-date. fashion is the most general term and applies to any way of dressing, behaving, writing, or performing that is favored at any one time or place.

- the current fashion

style often implies a distinctive fashion adopted by people of taste.

- a media baron used to traveling in style

mode suggests the fashion of the moment among those anxious to appear elegant and sophisticated.

- slim bodies are the mode at this resort

vogue stresses the wide acceptance of a fashion.

- short skirts are back in vogue

fad suggests caprice in taking up or in dropping a fashion.

- last year's fad is over

rage and craze stress intense enthusiasm in adopting a fad.

- Cajun food was the rage nearly everywhere for a time
- crossword puzzles once seemed just a passing craze but have lasted

synonyms see in addition method

fashion

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of fashion

1 to change (something) so as to make it suitable for a new use or situation

the ex-governor seems to be fashioning his political beliefs to win favor with a more conservative national electorate

Synonyms of fashion

acclimate, acclimatize, accommodate, adapt, adjust, condition, conform, doctor, edit, fit, put, shape, suit, tailor

Words Related to fashion

readapt, readjust

customize, gear, match, model, pattern

attune, correct, harmonize, square, tune

establish, root, settle

acquaint, familiarize, orient, orientate

equip, prepare, prime, rehearse

harden, inure, season, toughen

alter, convert, make over, modify, recast, reclaim, recycle, redesign, redevelop, redo, reengineer, refashion, refigure, refit, refocus, reinvent, rejigger, remake, remodel, revamp, revise, rework, transform

accustom, condition, habilitate, habituate, naturalize

fiddle (with), fine-tune, phase, register, regulate, rig

Near Antonyms of fashion

2 to bring into being by combining, shaping, or transforming materials

for the Christmas pageant the boy's mother was able to fashion the length of fabric into something that could pass as a shepherdʼs outfit

Synonyms of fashion

fabricate, form, frame, make, manufacture, produce

Words Related to fashion

assemble, build, construct, erect, make up, put up, raise, rear, set up, structure, throw up

craft, handcraft

forge, mold, shape

cobble (together or up), knock out, patch (together), throw up

create, invent, mint, originate

establish, father, institute, organize

concoct, contrive, cook (up), design, devise, imagine, think (up)

conceive, envisage, picture, visualize

refashion, remake, remanufacture

Phrases Synonymous with fashion

put together

Near Antonyms of fashion

disassemble, dismantle, take apart

break up, dismember

abolish, annihilate, demolish, destroy, devastate, eradicate, exterminate, extinguish, flatten, pulverize, raze, ruin, shatter, smash, wreck

blow up, explode

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