Unfashionable
[ʌn'fæʃ(ə)nəb(ə)l] or [ʌn'fæʃnəbl]
Definition
(adj.) not in accord with or not following current fashion; 'unfashionable clothes'; 'melodrama of a now unfashionable kind' .
Typist: Shelley--From WordNet
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Obsolete, disused, antiquated, old-fashioned, out of use, out of fashion, out of date, fallen into desuetude.
Checker: Mimi
Definition
adj. not fashionable: incapable of being fashioned: shapeless.—n. Unfash′ionableness.—adv. Unfash′ionably.—adj. Unfash′ioned shapeless without regular form.
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Examples
- To know things otherwise were to be unfashionable. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The young ladies arrived: their appearance was by no means ungenteel or unfashionable. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- Peasant women kept the unfashionable babies close, and brought them up, and charming grandmammas of sixty dressed and supped as at twenty. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- It was ruin to Mrs Boffin's aspirations, but, having so spoken, they sat side by side, a hopelessly Unfashionable pair. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- It is there unfashionable not to be a man of business. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
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