Meanings
- Unfashionable, not in fashion.
The old very high signals, for instance, affording a sky background at a considerable distance, and at times provided with co-acting arms lower down, are out of fashion now, although many still remain.
1952 February, “New Type of Signal Bridge Near Sunderland”, in Railway Magazine, page 881 more example
The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, when modish taste was just due to go clean out of fashion for the best part of the next hundred years.
1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC
Synonyms & antonyms
More synonyms by meaning
adjectiveunpopular and considered unappealing or unfashionable at the time
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Catalan passat de moda
- passat de modaunfashionable — see also unfashionable
Chinese Mandarin 不流行, 不時髦 /不时髦
- 不流行 (bù liúxíng)unfashionable — see also unfashionable
- 不時髦 /不时髦 (bù shímáo)unfashionable — see also unfashionable
- 過時 /过时 (guòshí)unfashionable — see also unfashionable
Finnish poissa muodista
- poissa muodistaunfashionable — see also unfashionable
French passé de mode, has-been
- passé de modeunfashionable — see also unfashionable
- has-beenunfashionable — see also unfashionable
German out
- outunfashionable — see also unfashionable
Polish passé, nie na czasie
- passéunfashionable — see also unfashionable
- nie na czasieunfashionable — see also unfashionable
Spanish pasado de moda, demodé
- pasado de modaunfashionable — see also unfashionable
- demodéunfashionable — see also unfashionable
Cite this entry
out of fashion. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/out%20of%20fashion
“out of fashion.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/out%20of%20fashion. Accessed November 5, 2026.
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