Meanings
comparative more unhip · superlative most unhip
- Not hip; uncool, unfashionable.
Fifteen years ago, on what remains as possibly the most unhip day of my life, my entire family, all nine of us, went to have our group portrait taken at a local photo salon.
1991, Douglas Coupland, “Define Normal”, in Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, page 133Synonyms: démodé, square, passé, unchic, basic, cheugy, cringe, cringey
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveNot hip; uncool, unfashionable.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*né
- Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
- Proto-Germanic*un-
- Proto-West Germanic*un-
- Old Englishun-
- Middle Englishun-
- Englishun-
- Englishhip
- Englishunhip
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