fashionable

IPA: fˈæʃʌnʌbʌɫ

noun

  • A fashionable person; a fop.

adjective

  • Characteristic of or influenced by a current popular trend or style.
  • Established or favoured by custom or use; current; prevailing at a particular time.
  • (archaic) genteel; well-bred
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Examples of "fashionable" in Sentences

  • She was extrovert, fast and fashionable.
  • It was fashionable in the Victorian and Edwardian eras.
  • A fashionable part of town where fashion is the theme of the venue.
  • I quite forget, but some paper or other which is full of what they call fashionable intelligence.
  • They compared notes about appendicitis, which they called the fashionable complaint, and Mrs. Taylour suddenly exclaimed:
  • Still less was she what we call fashionable, for the word was not known; nor was she a woman of society, for, as we have said, there was no society in a feudal castle.
  • I will say one thing farther-certainly more than three-fourths of the disorders in what we call fashionable life arise from the use of this very drug that we call alcohol.
  • As debate raged around the country about so called "mercy killings" Dr John Sentamu condemned what he described as fashionable opinion on the topic fuelled by celebrities and opinion polls.
  • That literary study would come to such an end was probably inevitable, since the primary imperative of academe -- to create "new" knowledge -- is finally inimical to something so difficult to dress up in fashionable critical clothes as serious works of fiction or poetry.
  • In recent decades, the rich have used their winnings to bid up the prices of artwork and fancy cars, the tuition at prestigious private schools and universities, the services of celebrity hairdressers and interior decorators, and real estate in fashionable enclaves from Park City to Park Avenue.

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