 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
fashionable
adjective
1: being or in accordance with current fashion; "fashionable
clothing"; "the fashionable side of town"; "a
fashionable cafe" [syn: {stylish}] [ant: {unfashionable}]
2: having elegance or taste or refinement in manners or dress;
"a little less posh but every bit as stylish as Lord Peter
Wimsey"; "the stylish resort of Gstadd" [syn: {stylish}]
[ant: {styleless}]
3: patronized by [syn: {popular with(p)}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Fashionable \Fash"ion*a*ble\, adjective
1. Conforming to the fashion or established mode; according
with the prevailing form or style; as, a fashionable
dress.
2. Established or favored by custom or use; current;
prevailing at a particular time; as, the fashionable
philosophy; fashionable opinions.
3. Observant of the fashion or customary mode; dressing or
behaving according to the prevailing fashion; as, a
fashionable man.
4. Genteel; well-bred; as, fashionable society.
Time is like a fashionable host
That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand.
--Shak.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Fashionable \Fash"ion*a*ble\, noun
A person who conforms to the fashions; -- used chiefly in the
plural.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
65 Moby Thesaurus words for "fashionable":
Beau Brummel, a la mode, advanced, all the rage, all the thing,
arbiter of fashion, avant-garde, chic, clotheshorse, clubman,
clubwoman, contemporary, current, dandy, dashing, deb, debutante,
exclusive, far out, fashion plate, fop, forward-looking, hip, in,
in fashion, in style, in vogue, man-about-town, mod, modern,
modernistic, modernized, modish, mondain, mondaine, new,
newfashioned, now, popular, present-day, present-time, prevalent,
progressive, smart, socialite, streamlined, stylish, subdeb,
subdebutante, swank, swinger, swish, taste-maker, tone-setter,
trend-setter, trendy, twentieth-century, ultra-ultra, ultramodern,
up-to-date, up-to-datish, up-to-the-minute, way out, with it,
with-it
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