Meanings
comparative more unfashionable · superlative most unfashionable
- Not fashionable.
The fashionable intelligence says so for the comfort of the Parisians, and it knows all fashionable things. To know things otherwise were to be unfashionable.
1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, chapter 2, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLCSynonyms: daggy
- obsoleteThat cannot be fashioned; unshapely, distorted.
1 more example
I, that am rudely stamp'd, and want love's majesty To strut before a wanton ambling nymph; I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deformed, unfinish'd, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them ...
c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act XI, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)]Synonyms: deformed
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveNot fashionable.
adjectiveThat cannot be fashioned; unshapely, distorted.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectivenot in accord with or not following current fashion
adjectiveunpopular and considered unappealing or unfashionable at the time
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*né
- Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
- Proto-Germanic*un-
- Proto-West Germanic*un-
- Old Englishun-
- Middle Englishun-
- Englishun-
- Proto-Indo-European*dʰeh₁-
- Proto-Indo-European*dʰeh₁k-
- Proto-Indo-European*dʰh₁kyéti
- Proto-Italic*θakjō
- Proto-Italic*fakjō
- Latinfaciō
- Latinfactiōnem
- Old Frenchfaçon
- Middle Englishfacioun
- Englishfashion
- Englishfashionable
- Englishunfashionable
From un- + fashionable.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Dutch onmodieus
- onmodieusnot fashionable
Finnish epämuodikas
- epämuodikasnot fashionable
French quétaine
- quétainenot fashionable
Hungarian divatjamúlt, ódivatú
- divatjamúltnot fashionable
- ódivatúnot fashionable
Italian fuori moda
- fuori modanot fashionable
Persian دمده
- دمده (demode)not fashionable
Portuguese fora de moda, brega
- fora de modanot fashionable
- breganot fashionable
- cafonanot fashionable
Romanian demodat
- demodatnot fashionable
Russian немо́дный
- немо́дный (nemódnyj)not fashionable
Spanish demodé, pasado
- demodénot fashionable
- pasadonot fashionable
- pasado de modanot fashionable
Swedish omodern
- omodernnot fashionable
Cite this entry
unfashionable. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unfashionable
“unfashionable.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unfashionable. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unfashionable,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unfashionable.
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