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trendy

adjectivenounattested in dialogue

  • //ˈtɹɛndi//

Of, or in accordance with the latest trend, fashion or hype.

adjective

  1. 1

    informalOf, or in accordance with the latest trend, fashion or hype.

    I hate those trendy pre-wrinkled shirts.

    MDF and HDF – or medium-density fiberboard and high-density fiberboard – are two of the trendiest materials in woodworking these days.

    Some people who go to trendy cafés lament getting stuck at the long central table that has to be shared, instead hoping they get a ‘private’ table. But that is foolish. On a recent trip to see family, I got stuck at the big table in a café, too; I ended up making a new friend there and learning about the surrounding town.

Etymology

Etymology tree English trend Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English trendy From trend + -y.

noun

  1. 1

    informalA trendy person.

    They're the kids who care. Yet they're the bad kids, and the trendies, the ones who are too cool to let anything matter, are the good kids. It's all twisted around.

Forms

plural
trendies
comparative
trendier
superlative
trendiest
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).