UNSTYLISH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unstylish mean? 

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

1. lacking in style or elegance

2. not in accord with or not following current fashion

  Familiarity information: UNSTYLISH used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNSTYLISH (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Lacking in style or elegance

Synonyms:

styleless; unstylish

Context example:

wearing unstylish clothes

Similar:

dowdy (lacking in smartness or taste)

Sense 2

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dowdy; frumpish; frumpy (primly out of date)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)