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单词 old-fashioned
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Definition of old-fashioned in English:

old-fashioned

adjective əʊldˈfaʃ(ə)ndˌoʊldˈfæʃənd
  • 1In or according to styles or types no longer current; not modern.

    an old-fashioned kitchen range
    Example sentencesExamples
    • To a lot of people, it might sound like really old-fashioned music, but to us it's current, it's what we do now.
    • Remember those old-fashioned telephones that plugged directly into the wall and had a cord attached to the hand piece?
    • The mansion's interior was as beautifully decorated as the outside - a fusion of modern technology and old-fashioned artefacts.
    • Noyce's film has a conventional, even old-fashioned feel to it.
    • Designed to mimic old-fashioned eyelet fabric, the metal O's create a modern look with no-sew ease.
    • The decor is impeccable - basically old-fashioned, but with enough modern twists to stop it feeling dated.
    • I appreciate that some people may not like modern architecture as opposed to the large ornate old-fashioned buildings.
    • The walls were hung with utensils for field and kitchen, and the shelves were stocked with old-fashioned hand tools and cooking gimcracks.
    • On the sound side, the old-fashioned Dolby Digtial Stereo 2.0 is clean, crisp, and clear.
    • These are only two of the hundreds of examples of secrecy in what is now seen as a very old-fashioned style of government.
    • Good old-fashioned police work and some of the most sophisticated modern detection techniques are being combined in the hunt for the criminal.
    • Falling business, old-fashioned designs, and conventional showroom decor keep the customers away.
    • She walks toward her kitchen and grabs an old-fashioned basket with handles, the basket is made from tree bark and it shines beautifully in the day.
    • She picked the right door on the first try, and went into a large, old-fashioned kitchen, so clean the shine from it almost hurt her eyes.
    • These are modern, gender-bending versions of old-fashioned wind-up toys, but all made of paper and very funny.
    • The place became so quiet, you could hear an old-fashioned timer clock ticking in the kitchen.
    • If such old-fashioned home remedies don't work, there is a new high-tech product in the drugstore.
    • While there's no cure for the common cold, old-fashioned foods can at least give you some comfort.
    • Some of the latter do their best to look like an old-fashioned range only to fail the knuckle-tap test we use to determine the solidity of the construction.
    • The old-fashioned furniture and fixtures have been replaced by modern wooden flooring and decoration in bright primary colours in a three-week programme.
    1. 1.1 Favouring traditional or conservative ideas or customs.
      she's stuffy and old-fashioned
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Some might regard such an old-fashioned view as misguided nostalgia.
      • It was by no means a deal-breaker, obviously, but I guess I am a bit old-fashioned.
      • So he was probably regarded as a little bit eccentric and odd, and a bit old-fashioned to begin with.
      • In my own opinion, I suppose I still see our society as possessing very old-fashioned views about men and women.
      • Many newspaper editors and owners still cling to the old-fashioned idea that they know better than you how you should vote.
      • Part of this comes from her old-fashioned view that one does not complain about such annoyances.
      • Perhaps the transition has been just that bit too quick for those of us who remembered things the old way or is it that I'm plain old-fashioned?
      • Are people being raised in barns now, or am I too old-fashioned for the current era?
      • Surely the more old-fashioned idea of locally-reared meat being slaughtered at a local abattoir a short distance away makes perfect sense.
      • He's a bit old-fashioned, in some respect, regarding the role of women in society.
      • We both shared old-fashioned views and stuck doggedly to them at all times.
      • Yet, despite the electronic attachments, there is something old-fashioned and traditional about him.
      • People may call me conservative, old-fashioned, or whatever they like, but I do not care.
      • Call me old-fashioned and traditional, but a comprehensible story is still appreciated.
      • Where we came from the people were pretty old-fashioned.
      • Maybe I'm just old-fashioned, but surely good manners and thoughtfulness should play a part here?
      • I am a bit old-fashioned, but there is a little piece of advice I give to the Minister: do it once; do it right.
      • He was a good man, just old-fashioned, a man from another time.
      • It may be an old-fashioned idea, but life is meaningless unless it is shared.
      • I'm a bit old-fashioned in that I prefer company names that actually reflect what the companies do.
      Synonyms
      out of date, outdated, dated, out, out of fashion, outmoded, unfashionable, last year's, frumpish, frumpy, out of style, outworn, old, old-time, old-world, behind the times, archaic, obsolescent, obsolete, ancient, antiquated, superannuated, defunct
      medieval, prehistoric, antediluvian, old-fogeyish, old-fangled, conservative, backward-looking, quaint, anachronistic, crusted, feudal, fusty, moth-eaten, olde worlde
      French passé, démodé, vieux jeu
      informal old hat, square, not with it, out of the ark, creaky, clunky, mouldy
      North American informal horse-and-buggy, rinky-dink, mossy
      archaic square-toed
    2. 1.2 (of a facial expression) disapproving.
      Jonas gave her an old-fashioned look
noun əʊldˈfaʃ(ə)ndˌoʊldˈfæʃənd
North American
  • A cocktail consisting chiefly of whisky, bitters, water, and sugar.

Derivatives

  • old-fashionedness

  • noun
    • The sanitized old-fashionedness of the design gives the paper just a whiff of authenticity, like old books scattered around a stage set.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • It has a sort of transcendent old-fashionedness, as though the music of the future had travelled back in time.
      • It is fairly extraordinary in this day and age - almost baroque in its old-fashionedness.
      • He cut through the seeming dryness of the piece, the old-fashionedness, and made it totally available to a new audience.
      • Once again, the family's suspicion of the operations of the modem credit economy is seen as quaint and old-fashioned - and that old-fashionedness is valorized.

Rhymes

unimpassioned
 
 

Definition of old-fashioned in US English:

old-fashioned

adjectiveˌoʊldˈfæʃəndˌōldˈfaSHənd
  • 1In or according to styles or types no longer current or common; not modern.

    an old-fashioned kitchen range
    Example sentencesExamples
    • She picked the right door on the first try, and went into a large, old-fashioned kitchen, so clean the shine from it almost hurt her eyes.
    • Designed to mimic old-fashioned eyelet fabric, the metal O's create a modern look with no-sew ease.
    • To a lot of people, it might sound like really old-fashioned music, but to us it's current, it's what we do now.
    • On the sound side, the old-fashioned Dolby Digtial Stereo 2.0 is clean, crisp, and clear.
    • She walks toward her kitchen and grabs an old-fashioned basket with handles, the basket is made from tree bark and it shines beautifully in the day.
    • These are only two of the hundreds of examples of secrecy in what is now seen as a very old-fashioned style of government.
    • Remember those old-fashioned telephones that plugged directly into the wall and had a cord attached to the hand piece?
    • Good old-fashioned police work and some of the most sophisticated modern detection techniques are being combined in the hunt for the criminal.
    • If such old-fashioned home remedies don't work, there is a new high-tech product in the drugstore.
    • While there's no cure for the common cold, old-fashioned foods can at least give you some comfort.
    • These are modern, gender-bending versions of old-fashioned wind-up toys, but all made of paper and very funny.
    • Noyce's film has a conventional, even old-fashioned feel to it.
    • The decor is impeccable - basically old-fashioned, but with enough modern twists to stop it feeling dated.
    • Falling business, old-fashioned designs, and conventional showroom decor keep the customers away.
    • The place became so quiet, you could hear an old-fashioned timer clock ticking in the kitchen.
    • Some of the latter do their best to look like an old-fashioned range only to fail the knuckle-tap test we use to determine the solidity of the construction.
    • I appreciate that some people may not like modern architecture as opposed to the large ornate old-fashioned buildings.
    • The walls were hung with utensils for field and kitchen, and the shelves were stocked with old-fashioned hand tools and cooking gimcracks.
    • The mansion's interior was as beautifully decorated as the outside - a fusion of modern technology and old-fashioned artefacts.
    • The old-fashioned furniture and fixtures have been replaced by modern wooden flooring and decoration in bright primary colours in a three-week programme.
    1. 1.1 (of a person or their views) favoring traditional and usually restrictive styles, ideas, or customs.
      she's stuffy and old-fashioned
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Yet, despite the electronic attachments, there is something old-fashioned and traditional about him.
      • Perhaps the transition has been just that bit too quick for those of us who remembered things the old way or is it that I'm plain old-fashioned?
      • I'm a bit old-fashioned in that I prefer company names that actually reflect what the companies do.
      • So he was probably regarded as a little bit eccentric and odd, and a bit old-fashioned to begin with.
      • Surely the more old-fashioned idea of locally-reared meat being slaughtered at a local abattoir a short distance away makes perfect sense.
      • Many newspaper editors and owners still cling to the old-fashioned idea that they know better than you how you should vote.
      • We both shared old-fashioned views and stuck doggedly to them at all times.
      • He was a good man, just old-fashioned, a man from another time.
      • I am a bit old-fashioned, but there is a little piece of advice I give to the Minister: do it once; do it right.
      • Where we came from the people were pretty old-fashioned.
      • It may be an old-fashioned idea, but life is meaningless unless it is shared.
      • Some might regard such an old-fashioned view as misguided nostalgia.
      • He's a bit old-fashioned, in some respect, regarding the role of women in society.
      • Are people being raised in barns now, or am I too old-fashioned for the current era?
      • In my own opinion, I suppose I still see our society as possessing very old-fashioned views about men and women.
      • Maybe I'm just old-fashioned, but surely good manners and thoughtfulness should play a part here?
      • Part of this comes from her old-fashioned view that one does not complain about such annoyances.
      • People may call me conservative, old-fashioned, or whatever they like, but I do not care.
      • It was by no means a deal-breaker, obviously, but I guess I am a bit old-fashioned.
      • Call me old-fashioned and traditional, but a comprehensible story is still appreciated.
      Synonyms
      out of date, outdated, dated, out, out of fashion, outmoded, unfashionable, last year's, frumpish, frumpy, out of style, outworn, old, old-time, old-world, behind the times, archaic, obsolescent, obsolete, ancient, antiquated, superannuated, defunct
nounˌoʊldˈfæʃəndˌōldˈfaSHənd
North American
  • A cocktail consisting chiefly of whiskey, bitters, water, and sugar.

 
 
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