unhip

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adjective

Not hip; uncool, unfashionable.

UncommonScrabble 10

Meanings

adjectiveunhip (comparative more unhip, superlative most unhip)

comparative more unhip · superlative most unhip

  1. 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 133

    Synonyms: démodé, square, passé, unchic, basic, cheugy, cringe, cringey

Synonyms & antonyms

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*né
  2. Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
  3. Proto-Germanic*un-
  4. Proto-West Germanic*un-
  5. Old Englishun-
  6. Middle Englishun-
  7. Englishun-
  8. Englishhip
  9. Englishunhip

From un- + hip.

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APA

unhip. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unhip

MLA

“unhip.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unhip. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unhip,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unhip.

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