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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

There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.
Ayn Rand

Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.
Margaret Thatcher

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

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

It is necessary to make virtue fashionable.
Jose Marti

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 begin to grow heartily tired of the etiquette and nonsense so fashionable in this city.
George Mason

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

We are now integrated into American society and I don't like the word fashionable, because fashionable means that it's going to pass. It's not like that anymore.
Antonio Banderas

I'm against fashionable thinking.
Herman Kahn

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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