fashionable

comparative more fashionable · superlative most fashionable

1. Characteristic of or influenced by a current popular trend or style; in fashion; in vogue.

   a fashionable man

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   a fashionable dress

   Synonyms: styleworthy · Antonyms: basic, cheugy, cringe, cringey, cringeworthy, dated, démodé, elderly

2. Established or favoured by custom or use; current; prevailing at a particular time.

   fashionable opinions

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   the fashionable philosophy

3. archaicgenteel; well-bred

   fashionable society

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   For time is like a faſhionable Hoſte / That ſlightly ſhakes his parting Gueſt by th'hand;

   c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii], column 1

plural fashionables

1. A fashionable person; a fop.

   Just as I was stepping up to offer my hand to a very pleasing and witty fashionable, the brilliant and exclusive Mrs. Rawdon Crawley,"—he wrote […]

   1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC

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   We speculated upon the astonishment that would have seized upon their simple, innocent hearts, had they beheld, instead of us, a bevy of our city fashionables in full bloom.

   1860, Various, Atlantic Monthly, Vol. VI.,October, 1860.--No. XXXVI.

   In large measure the Metropolitan is a show-case for rich fashionables who are not trained in Wagnerian music and have no reverence for it, but who like to promote art and show their clothes.

   1891, Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), “At the Shrine of St. Wagner”, in What Is Man? and Other Essays

   A few, perhaps, have a further purpose; they desire to assist in that circus, to show themselves in the capacity of fashionables, to enchant the yokelry with their splendor.

   1991 September 20, George Grass, “Star Show”, in Chicago Reader

   Synonyms: barbermonger, beau, blade, blood, buck, carpet knight, cockscomb, dandy