UNFASHIONABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unfashionable mean? 

• UNFASHIONABLE (adjective)
  The adjective UNFASHIONABLE has 2 senses:

1. not in accord with or not following current fashion

2. unpopular and considered unappealing or unfashionable at the time

  Familiarity information: UNFASHIONABLE used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNFASHIONABLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not in accord with or not following current fashion

Synonyms:

unfashionable; unstylish

Context example:

melodrama of a now unfashionable kind

Similar:

antique; demode; ex; old-fashioned; old-hat; outmoded; passe; passee (out of fashion)

dated (marked by features of the immediate and usually discounted past)

dowdy; frumpish; frumpy (primly out of date)

fogyish; moss-grown; mossy; stick-in-the-mud; stodgy ((used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned)

out; prehistoric (no longer fashionable)

Also:

old (of long duration; not new)

Antonym:

fashionable (being or in accordance with current social fashions)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Unpopular and considered unappealing or unfashionable at the time

Synonyms:

out of fashion; unfashionable

Similar:

unpopular (regarded with disfavor or lacking general approval)

 Context examples 

The young ladies arrived: their appearance was by no means ungenteel or unfashionable.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

She was not elegantly dressed, but a noble-looking woman, and the girls thought the gray cloak and unfashionable bonnet covered the most splendid mother in the world.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Meg and John happened to be standing together in the middle of the grass plot, when Laurie was seized with an inspiration which put the finishing touch to this unfashionable wedding.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)