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noun

Synonym Chooser

How is the word vogue distinct from other similar nouns?

Some common synonyms of vogue are craze, fad, fashion, mode, rage, and style. While all these words mean "the usage accepted by those who want to be up-to-date," vogue stresses the wide acceptance of a fashion.

short skirts are back in vogue

When is fad a more appropriate choice than vogue?

While in some cases nearly identical to vogue, fad suggests caprice in taking up or in dropping a fashion.

last year's fad is over

In what contexts can fashion take the place of vogue?

Although the words fashion and vogue have much in common, 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

When might mode be a better fit than vogue?

While the synonyms mode and vogue are close in meaning, mode suggests the fashion of the moment among those anxious to appear elegant and sophisticated.

slim bodies are the mode at this resort

How do rage and craze relate to one another, in the sense of vogue?

Both 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

When can style be used instead of vogue?

In some situations, the words style and vogue are roughly equivalent. However, style often implies a distinctive fashion adopted by people of taste.

a media baron used to traveling in style

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of vogue
Noun
His thesis — that physics, too, shapes us — is coming back into vogue. Anna Demming, Quanta Magazine, 10 Oct. 2025 Naturally, trends change and evolve, and now belt bags are back en vogue with a more fashion-forward approach that’s still a great addition to your travel gear collection. Merrell Readman, Travel + Leisure, 27 Sep. 2025 This is what The League has to worry about, and why mobile QBs have become the vogue. Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Sep. 2025 Film seems to be in vogue in the fashion world at the moment. Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 24 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for vogue
Recent Examples of Synonyms for vogue
Adjective
  • Also in the Big Apple, a fashionable Kim Kardashian promotes All's Fair, and Busy Philipps shares a kiss with her boyfriend Blake Berris.
    Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 29 Oct. 2025
  • It’s housed in a minimal and matte cauldron-like vessel that will still look fashionable beyond October 31st.
    Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 29 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • And the bubbly contortionist, 42, might have set a trend with those one-of-a-kind movements.
    Stephanie Sengwe, PEOPLE, 30 Oct. 2025
  • With the Kingpins denim show in Amsterdam fresh in her mind, Velasquez also offered forward-looking trend and business insights on the future of denim.
    Lauren Parker, Sourcing Journal, 29 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • For instance, given the growing popularity of ride-share services in large cities, RA & Associates has plans in place to be able to represent clients involved in accidents pertaining to ride-share vehicles.
    Ethan Stone, USA Today, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Yet despite its popularity, research discredits this long-standing belief.
    Taryn White, Travel + Leisure, 29 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • This is one of the most popular portable heated blankets on Amazon, with almost 500 perfect ratings.
    Olivia Young, Travel + Leisure, 29 Oct. 2025
  • The figure of Achilles, a warrior who singlehandedly choked a river with dead enemies before taking on the river god himself, provided a model for Alexander the Great and persists in contemporary popular entertainment, political speech, and military culture in celebrations of shock and awe.
    Elizabeth D. Samet, Foreign Affairs, 29 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Beyond Meat once sold for almost $240 a share at the height of the meat alternative craze in the summer of 2019, after Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan and Credit Suisse brought it public at $25 a share in a May 2019 initial public offering.
    Liz Napolitano, CNBC, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Raised in Blackpool, England, after his adoption into a working-class family, Ball grew up a budding artist with a penchant for the Northern soul craze then sweeping the north of England, obsessively collecting Tamla and Stax singles.
    Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 23 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Though twentieth-century audiences were far less likely to see a sideshow in person than had been crowds in Browning’s era, this may have been a mark in Freaks’s favor.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Gagnon's was the second trade proposal authored by a major outlet Wednesday, in which the Raiders receive incoming draft compensation as part of the acquisition of a quarterback with once high expectations who has fallen out of favor with his current organization.
    Max Dible, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • These latests features are designed for enterprises who want to integrate their AI technology with either existing Salesforce data or even their own data.
    Gene Marks, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
  • The latests deaths included three residents of long-term care facilities in Dallas, as well as a Balch Springs man in his 20s and a Dallas man in his 60s.
    Dana Branham, Dallas News, 30 Apr. 2020
Adjective
  • In my favorite works of his, like A Case for the Existence of God and A Bright New Boise—a play that has its own surreal dynamic with television screens, which play images of hell in the middle of a big-box store—Hunter locates an unnerving mysticism in between the atoms of the hyper-real.
    Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Crafted from 100% cotton, the fabric delivers the soft stretch and cozy feel of your favorite T-shirt while being gentle on the skin.
    Mariana Best, Better Homes & Gardens, 31 Oct. 2025

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“Vogue.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vogue. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.

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