fashionable Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective being or in accordance with current social fashions
    stylish.
    • fashionable clothing
    • the fashionable side of town
    • a fashionable cafe
  2. adjective having elegance or taste or refinement in manners or dress
    stylish.
    • a little less posh but every bit as stylish as Lord Peter Wimsey
    • the stylish resort of Gstadd
  3. adjective satellite patronized by

WordNet


Fash"ion*a*ble adjective
Definitions
  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.
Fash"ion*a*ble noun
Definitions
  1. A person who conforms to the fashions; -- used chiefly in the plural.

Webster 1913