fashionable
AdjektivSubstantivin Dialogen belegt
- //ˈfæʃənəbl̩//
Characteristic of or influenced by a current popular trend or style; in fashion; in vogue.
Adjektiv
- 1
Characteristic of or influenced by a current popular trend or style; in fashion; in vogue.
a fashionable dress
a fashionable man
- 2
Established or favoured by custom or use; current; prevailing at a particular time.
the fashionable philosophy
fashionable opinions
- 3
altertümlichgenteel; well-bred
fashionable society
For time is like a faſhionable Hoſte / That ſlightly ſhakes his parting Gueſt by th'hand;
Herkunft
Etymology tree English fashion Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlomder. Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English fashionable From fashion + -able.
Substantiv
- 1
A fashionable person; a fop.
Just as I was stepping up to offer my hand to a very pleasing and witty fashionable, the brilliant and exclusive Mrs. Rawdon Crawley,"—he wrote […]
We speculated upon the astonishment that would have seized upon their simple, innocent hearts, had they beheld, instead of us, a bevy of our city fashionables in full bloom.
In large measure the Metropolitan is a show-case for rich fashionables who are not trained in Wagnerian music and have no reverence for it, but who like to promote art and show their clothes.
A few, perhaps, have a further purpose; they desire to assist in that circus, to show themselves in the capacity of fashionables, to enchant the yokelry with their splendor.
Formen
- Plural
- fashionables
- Komparativ
- more fashionable
- Superlativ
- most fashionable
fashionable · Characteristic of or influenced by a current popular trend or style; in fashion; in vogue.
fashioned · Having a specified fashion or stylefast · Firm against attack; fortified by nature or art; impregnable;…Fast · A surname.