unfashionable
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3.7
- adjective
- /ʌnˈfæʃənəbl/
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pasado de moda
- Many teenagers try to avoid wearing unfashionable clothes to fit in with their peers.
- become unfashionable
And it doesn't matter whether you're prejudice against what is fashionable or unfashionable.
- And it doesn't matter whether you're prejudice against what is fashionable or unfashionable.
- That sort of micro foundation was already there in Keynes, in John Maynard Keynes, but became unfashionable.
- You know, it's weird how it's become almost unfashionable to talk about fertility unless in the extreme right we talk about contraception.
- These are the things that, again, using very unfashionable language elevators take us beyond ourselves, but can also unite us with other people.
- Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded yellow sun.
Examples
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Ordinary readers harbor the unfashionable notion that these works are really about something.
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In recent decades, older consumer goods have become not just unfashionable, but increasingly obsolete in their function.
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And that was the the most unfashionable thing that you could be involved with.
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So, what do you say we get out of these rather unfashionable clothes...
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These are deeply unfashionable things right now.
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Well, I guess I'm not as unfashionable as I once thought I was.
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And what was once fashionable soon turned unfashionable, and what was old quickly became new again.
Blog text (9) -
And I suppose it's become unfashionable to care about wanting to make something worthwhile.
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Speaking of washing clothes, do y'all realize how unfashionable it is to hang clothes out to dry now?
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Although it has become unfashionable worldwide to talk about class struggle, the divisions in Latin America have become sharper.
Academic text (1993)
Synonyms
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7.4
Not fashionable or popular and thought boring
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3.4
Not popular or stylish now
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6.5
No longer fashionable or useful
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7.7
Not fashionable or aware of current trends
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3.7
Not fashionable or elegant in appearance
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6.0
Having a plain look that is not fashionable
Not fashionable or stylish, often plain and old-fashioned
Having an older style that does not follow current fashion
Not fashionable and showing bad taste
Antonyms
How Fashionable
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3.7
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7.1
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5.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
unfashionable = fashionable (transparent) = un + fashion + able
The productive negating prefix 'un-' is applied to the adjective 'fashionable' to give the expected opposite meaning.
Etymology
The word unfashionable starts with un- meaning 'not' and has fashion meaning 'style', so it means 'not in style'. We use it for clothes or ideas that are out of style.