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.
• COURTEOUSNESS
  The quality of being courteous; politeness; courtesy.
• GENTEELLY
  In a genteel manner.
• 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.