Word Meanings - FASHIONABLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. Conforming to the fashion or established mode; according with the prevailing form or style; as, a fashionable dress. 2. Established or favored by custom or use; current; prevailing at a particular time; as, the fashionable philosophy;
Additional info about word: FASHIONABLE
1. Conforming to the fashion or established mode; according with the prevailing form or style; as, a fashionable dress. 2. Established or favored by custom or use; current; prevailing at a particular time; as, the fashionable philosophy; fashionable opinions. 3. Observant of the fashion or customary mode; dressing or behaving according to the prevailing fashion; as, a fashionable man. 4. Genteel; well-bred; as, fashionable society. Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand. Shak.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FASHIONABLE)
- Genteel
- Polite
- well-bred
- refined
- courteous
- fashionable
- elegant
- aristocratic
- polished
- graceful
- Modish
- Fashionable
- stylish
- modern
Related words: (words related to FASHIONABLE)
- POLITENESS
1. High finish; smoothness; burnished elegance. Evelyn. 2. The quality or state of being polite; refinement of manners; urbanity; courteous behavior; complaisance; obliging attentions. Syn. -- Courtesy; good breeding; refinement; urbanity; - MODERN
1. Of or pertaining to the present time, or time not long past; late; not ancient or remote in past time; of recent period; as, modern days, ages, or time; modern authors; modern fashions; modern taste; modern practice. Bacon. 2. New and common; - POLITE
1. Smooth; polished. Rays of light falling on a polite surface. Sir I. Newton. 2. Smooth and refined in behavior or manners; well bred; courteous; complaisant; obliging; civil. He marries, bows at court, and grows polite. Pope. 3. Characterized - POLISHMENT
The act of polishing, or the state of being polished. - GRACEFUL
Displaying grace or beauty in form or action; elegant; easy; agreeable in appearance; as, a graceful walk, deportment, speaker, air, act, speech. High o'er the rest in arms the graceful Turnus rode. Dryden. -- Grace"ful*ly, adv. Grace"ful*ness, n. - REFINED
Freed from impurities or alloy; purifed; polished; cultured; delicate; as; refined gold; refined language; refined sentiments. Refined wits who honored poesy with their pens. Peacham. -- Re*fin"ed*ly (r, adv. -- Re*fin"ed*ness, n. - POLISHED
Made smooth and glossy, as by friction; hence, highly finished; refined; polite; as, polished plate; polished manners; polished verse. - MODERNIZATION
The act of rendering modern in style; the act or process of causing to conform to modern of thinking or acting. - FASHIONABLENESS
State of being fashionable. - POLISHABLE
Capable of being polished. - REFINEMENT
1. The act of refining, or the state of being refined; as, the refinement or metals; refinement of ideas. The more bodies are of kin to spirit in subtilty and refinement, the more diffusive are they. Norris. From the civil war to this time, I doubt - GENTEELISH
Somewhat genteel. - REFIND
To find again; to get or experience again. Sandys. - GENTEELLY
In a genteel manner. - COURTEOUSNESS
The quality of being courteous; politeness; courtesy. - REFINER
One who, or that which, refines. - MODERNNESS
The quality or state of being modern; recentness; novelty. M. Arnold. - POLISHEDNESS
The quality of being polished. - FASHIONABLE
1. Conforming to the fashion or established mode; according with the prevailing form or style; as, a fashionable dress. 2. Established or favored by custom or use; current; prevailing at a particular time; as, the fashionable philosophy; - COURTEOUSLY
In a courteous manner. - PREFINE
To limit beforehand. Knolles. - ANTHROPOLITE
A petrifaction of the human body, or of any portion of it. - REPOLISH
To polish again. - UNPOLITE
Not polite; impolite; rude. -- Un`po*lite"ly, adv. -- Un`po*lite"ness, n. - PREFINITE
Prearranged. " Set and prefinite time." Holland. - DEPOLISHING
The process of removing the vitreous glaze from porcelain, leaving the dull luster of the surface of ivory porcelian. Knight. - OVERELEGANT
Too elegant. Johnson. - POSPOLITE
A kind of militia in Poland, consisting of the gentry, which, in case of invasion, was summoned to the defense of the country. - IMPOLITE
Not polite; not of polished manners; wanting in good manners; discourteous; uncivil; rude. -- Im`po*lite"ly, adv. -- Im`po*lite"ness, n. - TYPOLITE
A stone or fossil which has on it impressions or figures of plants and animals.