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fashionable

adj
/ˈfæʃənəbl̩/

Etymology

From fashion + -able.

  1. derived from factiō — “a making”
  2. derived from fechoun
  3. inherited from facioun
  4. suffixed as fashionable — “fashion + able”

Definitions

  1. Characteristic of or influenced by a current popular trend or style

    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

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

    • the fashionable philosophy
    • fashionable opinions

  3. genteel

    genteel; well-bred

    • fashionable society
    • For time is like a faſhionable Hoſte / That ſlightly ſhakes his parting Gueſt by th'hand;
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. A fashionable person

      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.

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Derived

antifashionable, fashionability, fashionable lateness, fashionableness, fashionably, infashionable, nonfashionable, prefashionable, superfashionable, ultrafashionable, unfashionable

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at fashionable. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at fashionable. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at fashionable

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA