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unfashionable

/ənˈfæʃənəbəl/
/ənˈfæʃənəbəl/
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Definitions of unfashionable
  1. adjective
    not in accord with or not following current fashion
    unfashionable clothes”
    “melodrama of a now unfashionable kind”
    synonyms: unstylish
    dated
    marked by features of the immediate and usually discounted past
    dowdy, frumpish, frumpy
    primly out of date
    fogyish, moss-grown, mossy, stick-in-the-mud, stodgy
    (used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned
    out
    no longer fashionable
    prehistoric
    no longer fashionable
    old
    of long duration; not new
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    antonyms:
    fashionable
    being or in accordance with current social fashions
    a la mode, in style, in vogue, latest, modish
    in the current fashion or style
    cool
    fashionable and attractive at the time; often skilled or socially adept
    dapper, dashing, jaunty, natty, raffish, rakish, snappy, spiffy, spruce
    marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners
    faddish, faddy
    intensely fashionable for a short time
    groovy, swagger
    (British informal) very chic
    in
    currently fashionable
    cutting-edge, up-to-date, with it, with-it
    in accord with the most fashionable ideas or style
    mod, modern, modernistic
    relating to a recently developed fashion or style
    old-time, olde worlde, quaint
    attractively old-fashioned (but not necessarily authentic)
    swank, swanky
    imposingly fashionable and elegant
    trend-setting, trendsetting
    initiating or popularizing a trend
    trendy, voguish
    in accord with the latest fad
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