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fashionable

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fash·ion·a·ble  (fsh-n-bl)
adj.
1. Conforming to the current style; stylish.
2. Associated with or frequented by persons of fashion.
n.
A stylish person.

fashion·a·bil·i·ty, fashion·a·ble·ness n.
fashion·a·bly adv.
Synonyms: fashionable, chic, dashing, in1, modish, posh, sharp, smart, stylish, swank, trendy
These adjectives mean in accordance with the current fashion: a fashionable restaurant; a chic dress; a dashing hat; the in place to go; modish jewelry; a posh address; a sharp jacket; a smart hotel; stylish clothes; a swank apartment; a trendy neighborhood.

fashionable [ˈfæʃənəbəl]
adj
1. conforming to fashion; in vogue
2. of, characteristic of, or patronized by people of fashion a fashionable café
3. (usually foll by with) patronized (by); popular (with)
fashionability , fashionableness n
fashionably  adv
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.fashionable - being or in accordance with current social fashions; "fashionable clothing"; "the fashionable side of town"; "a fashionable cafe"
unfashionable, unstylish - not in accord with or not following current fashion; "unfashionable clothes"; "melodrama of a now unfashionable kind"
2.fashionablefashionable - having elegance or taste or refinement in manners or dress; "a little less posh but every bit as stylish as Lord Peter Wimsey"; "the stylish resort of Gstadd"
3.fashionable - patronized by
popular - regarded with great favor, approval, or affection especially by the general public; "a popular tourist attraction"; "a popular girl"; "cabbage patch dolls are no longer popular"

fashionable
adjective popular, in fashion, trendy (Brit. informal), cool (slang), in (informal), latest, the new, happening (informal), current, modern, with it (informal), usual, smart, hip (slang), prevailing, stylish, chic, up-to-date, customary, genteel, in vogue, all the rage, up-to-the-minute, modish, du jour (French), à la mode, voguish (informal), trendsetting, all the go (informal), culty It became fashionable to eat certain foods.
old-fashioned, dated, unpopular, obsolete, out of date, unfashionable, outmoded, old-hat, uncool (slang), frumpy, behind the times, unhip (slang), unstylish, untrendy (Brit. informal), out of the ark (informal)
Translations
fashionable [ˈfæʃnəbl] ADJ
1. [dress etc] → de moda, moderno, a la moda; [place, restaurant] → de moda
fashionable peoplegente f elegante, gente f guapa
in fashionable societyen la buena sociedad
it is fashionable to doestá de moda hacer ...
2. (= popular) [writer, subject for discussion] → de moda, popular
he is hardly a fashionable painter nowes un pintor que no está ahora muy de moda

fashionable [ˈfæʃənəbəl] adj [clothes] → à la mode; [place, restaurant, hotel] → à la mode
Jane wears very fashionable clothes → Jane porte des vêtements très à la mode.
a fashionable restaurant → un restaurant à la mode
to become fashionable → devenir à la mode
it is fashionable to do ... → c'est la mode de faire ...

fashionable
adj clothes, look, personmodisch; restaurant, shop, areaschick; idea, artistzurzeit beliebt; fashionable colour (Brit) or color (US) → Modefarbe f; fashionable writerModeschriftsteller(in) m(f); to become fashionablein Mode kommen, modern werden; it’s fashionable to do thates ist modern or (in) Mode, das zu tun; Michelle is super fashionable (inf)Michelle hat supermoderne Klamotten (inf); the fashionable set or peopledie Schickeria

fashionable [ˈfæʃnəbl] adjalla moda, di moda; (writer) → di grido
it is fashionable to do ... → è/va di moda fare...
fashionable [ˈfæʃnəbl] adjalla moda, di moda; (writer) → di grido
it is fashionable to do ... → è/va di moda fare...

fashionable مواكب للموضة moderní moderigtig modisch μοδάτος a la moda muodikas à la mode koji prati modu alla moda 流行の 유행의 modieus moderne modny na moda модный modern ทันสมัย modaya uygun mốt 时髦的


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The fashionable intelligence says so for the comfort of the Parisians, and it knows all fashionable things.
As a general practitioner, he might have bought a comfortable business, with a house and snug surgery-shop attached; but the son-in-law of Lady Malkinshaw was obliged to hold up his head, and set up his carriage, and live in a street near a fashionable square, and keep an expensive and clumsy footman to answer the door, instead of a cheap and tidy housemaid.
For some weeks he drove us together, and then we were sold to a fashionable gentleman, and were sent up to London.
 
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