fashionable

adjective

1. 1

   Characteristic of or influenced by a current popular trend or style; in fashion; in vogue.

   a fashionable dress

   a fashionable man

2. 2

   Established or favoured by custom or use; current; prevailing at a particular time.

   the fashionable philosophy

   fashionable opinions

3. 3

   archaicgenteel; well-bred

   fashionable society

   For time is like a faſhionable Hoſte / That ſlightly ſhakes his parting Gueſt by th'hand;

noun

1. 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.

Forms

plural

fashionables

comparative

more fashionable

superlative

most fashionable