Definition of Fashionable
Fashionable
Conforming to the fashion or established mode; according with the prevailing form or style; as, a fashionable dress.
Established or favored by custom or use; current; prevailing at a particular time; as, the fashionable philosophy; fashionable opinions.
Observant of the fashion or customary mode; dressing or behaving according to the prevailing fashion; as, a fashionable man.
Genteel; well-bred; as, fashionable society.
A person who conforms to the fashions; -- used chiefly in the plural.
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Fashionable Quotations
Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.
Margaret Thatcher
There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.
Ayn Rand
A fashionable milieu is one in which everybody's opinion is made up of the opinion of all the others. Has everybody a different opinion? Then it is a literary milieu.
Marcel Proust
I don't like LA. The majority just seem to be so artificial. Look at how they worship everything they think is fashionable. Isn't it sick?
Billie Joe Armstrong
I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something which shall for a few days supersede the last fashionable novel on the tables of young ladies.
Thomas B. Macaulay
One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
They meant abnormal. Divisions of the kind were fashionable at that time, and it was so easy to stifle one's need to help by deciding that help could neither be accepted nor understood.
Janet Frame
Divisions of the kind were fashionable at that time, and it was so easy to stifle one's need to help by deciding that help could neither be accepted nor understood.
Janet Frame
I'm against fashionable thinking.
Herman Kahn
The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man.
Stendhal
Fashionable Translations
fashionable in Dutch is in de mode, modieus, mode-, in zwang
fashionable in French is moderne
fashionable in German is modisch, modisch, modern
fashionable in Hungarian is divatos
fashionable in Norwegian is elegant, moderne
fashionable in Spanish is de moda
fashionable in Swedish is i ropet, modern, elegant
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