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FASHIONABLE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Being or in accordance with current social fashions
Example:
a fashionable cafe
Synonyms:
fashionable; stylish
Classified under:
Similar:
trendy; voguish (in accord with the latest fad)
trend-setting; trendsetting (initiating or popularizing a trend)
swank; swanky (imposingly fashionable and elegant)
old-time; olde worlde; quaint (attractively old-fashioned (but not necessarily authentic))
mod; modern; modernistic (relating to a recently developed fashion or style)
cutting-edge; up-to-date; up to date; with-it (in accord with the most fashionable ideas or style)
in (currently fashionable)
groovy; swagger ((British informal) very chic)
faddish; faddy (intensely fashionable for a short time)
dapper; dashing; jaunty; natty; raffish; rakish; snappy; spiffy; spruce (marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners)
cool (fashionable and attractive at the time; often skilled or socially adept)
a la mode; in style; in vogue; latest; modish (in the current fashion or style)
Antonym:
unfashionable (not in accord with or not following current fashion)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Having elegance or taste or refinement in manners or dress
Example:
the stylish resort of Gstadd
Synonyms:
fashionable; stylish
Classified under:
Similar:
chic; smart; voguish (elegant and stylish)
chichi (affectedly trendy and fashionable)
classy; posh; swish (elegant and fashionable)
snazzy (flashily stylish)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Popular and considered appealing or fashionable at the time
Synonyms:
fashionable; in fashion
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
popular (regarded with great favor, approval, or affection especially by the general public)
Context examples:
Every creature in Bath, except himself, was to be seen in the room at different periods of the fashionable hours; crowds of people were every moment passing in and out, up the steps and down; people whom nobody cared about, and nobody wanted to see; and he only was absent.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
In the course of the afternoon and evening these hints were enlarged on: various soft conversations were reported, and sentimental scenes represented; and, in short, a volume of a novel of fashionable life was that day improvised by her for my benefit.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Though he had detected with a critical eye more than one failure of perfect symmetry in her form, he was forced to acknowledge her figure to be light and pleasing; and in spite of his asserting that her manners were not those of the fashionable world, he was caught by their easy playfulness.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
He was now fixed on the far east of the northern shore, on the east of the southern shore, and on the south. The north and west were surely never meant to be left out of his diabolical scheme—let alone the City itself and the very heart of fashionable London in the south-west and west. I went back to Smollet, and asked him if he could tell us if any other boxes had been taken from Carfax.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
"I don't want a fashionable wedding, but only those about me whom I love, and to them I wish to look and be my familiar self."
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
We lunched at Stephen’s, the fashionable inn in Bond Street, where I saw a line of tilburys and saddle-horses, which stretched from the door to the further end of the street.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Your servant, and then walking out with me in his most fashionable manner, making a good deal of noise on the pavement with his shoes, and humming a tune as we went.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Fanny read to herself that it was with infinite concern the newspaper had to announce to the world a matrimonial fracas in the family of Mr. R. of Wimpole Street; the beautiful Mrs. R., whose name had not long been enrolled in the lists of Hymen, and who had promised to become so brilliant a leader in the fashionable world, having quitted her husband's roof in company with the well-known and captivating Mr. C., the intimate friend and associate of Mr. R., and it was not known even to the editor of the newspaper whither they were gone.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
In rapid succession we passed through the fringe of fashionable London, hotel London, theatrical London, literary London, commercial London, and, finally, maritime London, till we came to a riverside city of a hundred thousand souls, where the tenement houses swelter and reek with the outcasts of Europe.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Their being her relations too made it so much the worse; and Mrs. Jennings's attempts at consolation were therefore unfortunately founded, when she advised her daughter not to care about their being so fashionable; because they were all cousins and must put up with one another.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
