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单词 unfashionable
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Definition of unfashionable in English:

unfashionable

adjectiveʌnˈfaʃ(ə)nəb(ə)lˌənˈfæʃ(ə)nəb(ə)l
  • Not fashionable or popular at a particular time.

    they lived in an unfashionable part of London
    Example sentencesExamples
    • And what Carter did is still very unfashionable.
    • This isn't a terribly fashionable approach, but like all things unfashionable, it contains a grain of truth.
    • Its name alone surely proves how quickly the unfashionable can become fashionable.
    • This unfashionable voyeurism is perhaps the reason why British mainstream channels left live transmission of the event to Sky broadcasting corporation.
    • The popular image of polka as unfashionable is often simply mockery of working-class folks.
    • Clare, that rare beast, a loquacious listener, is a very social animal with an unfashionable belief that the society we are born into determines our fates at least as much as our genes.
    • Fern gardens were not at all unusual then but, for whatever reason, they became unfashionable and for years now the only place you could find them would be in the tropical houses at Kew.
    • I can get goat's cheese with apricot chutney and rocket on olive flavoured focaccia, but cheddar and Branston on white sliced seems to be terminally unfashionable.
    • Clean-cut, in sharp suits, and with short hair at a time when that was unfashionable, they prowled around muttering into wires that protruded from their shirt cuffs.
    • It always seemed to me inexplicable that someone like Waterhouse was so popular, yet so unfashionable.
    • It has become unfashionable for women to talk about laundry and washing machines in polite society, as if doing so somehow demonstrated the limits of their worldly interests.
    • Smoking is the most romantic suicide possible; it certainly isn't possible to say that smoking is profoundly unfashionable today - it patently is.
    • So for an essay in popular science, the book's style is distinctly unfashionable.
    • Their writing gets fashionable, then unfashionable, then fashionable again.
    • But coming from them, that could also be seen as an attempt to play down the hunting connection, almost as if they were ashamed of holding such unfashionable views.
    • It's a particularly unfashionable old hat that ought to have gone to the charity shop long ago.
    • Their continued popularity is, I suspect, due to their unfashionable, housewifely nature.
    • What is really worrying is that if art is fashionable to own, then what happens when it becomes unfashionable?
    • Repairing wrecked companies is a tricky task, whether they are in fashionable businesses like telecoms, or deeply unfashionable metal-bashing.
    • Apparently, this is an unfashionable part of fashionable Takapuna.
    Synonyms
    out of fashion, out of date, outdated, old-fashioned, outmoded, out of style, dated, behind the times, last year's, yesterday's, unpopular, unstylish, superseded, archaic, obsolete, antiquated
    bygone, old-fangled, crusty, olde worlde, prehistoric, antediluvian
    French passé, démodé
    informal old hat, out, square, out of the ark

Derivatives

  • unfashionableness

  • nounʌnˈfaʃnəblnəsˌənˈfæʃ(ə)nəb(ə)lnəs
    • It may also have contributed to the odd fact that Darwinism suffered a temporary spell of unfashionableness in the early part of the 20th century.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The British Empire went into fast decline at the end of the Second World War largely due to the unfashionableness of colonialism which was considered to be counter to the rights of the nations embodied in the Empire.
      • He argues that the definitive quality is his very unfashionableness, his being out of the mainstream of his or any time.
      • History, however, has stripped Bach's music of any whiff of temporal unfashionableness and revealed, magnificently, its genius.
      • But its unfashionableness comes out when you consider its contraries - for example, impulsiveness and outspokenness.
  • unfashionably

  • adverbʌnˈfaʃnəbliˌənˈfæʃ(ə)nəbli
    • Here he's created an audacious, risk-taking epic that unfashionably takes the chance that it might abandon some of its potential audience.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • A brilliantly clever, decent, hard-working woman is forced to apologise to the public for dressing unfashionably.
      • Rather unfashionably, I was really interested in education.
      • Emma Watson, who has been brought up by a well-to-do aunt, returns to her family, who live unfashionably in genteel poverty in a Surrey village.
      • And like Harry, I believe - unfashionably enough - that a strong and democratic labor movement can help make the world a better place for many more people than it is now.
 
 

Definition of unfashionable in US English:

unfashionable

adjectiveˌənˈfæʃ(ə)nəb(ə)lˌənˈfaSH(ə)nəb(ə)l
  • Not fashionable or popular at a particular time.

    they lived in an unfashionable part of Houston
    Example sentencesExamples
    • This unfashionable voyeurism is perhaps the reason why British mainstream channels left live transmission of the event to Sky broadcasting corporation.
    • It's a particularly unfashionable old hat that ought to have gone to the charity shop long ago.
    • Clare, that rare beast, a loquacious listener, is a very social animal with an unfashionable belief that the society we are born into determines our fates at least as much as our genes.
    • Smoking is the most romantic suicide possible; it certainly isn't possible to say that smoking is profoundly unfashionable today - it patently is.
    • And what Carter did is still very unfashionable.
    • This isn't a terribly fashionable approach, but like all things unfashionable, it contains a grain of truth.
    • Their writing gets fashionable, then unfashionable, then fashionable again.
    • It always seemed to me inexplicable that someone like Waterhouse was so popular, yet so unfashionable.
    • It has become unfashionable for women to talk about laundry and washing machines in polite society, as if doing so somehow demonstrated the limits of their worldly interests.
    • But coming from them, that could also be seen as an attempt to play down the hunting connection, almost as if they were ashamed of holding such unfashionable views.
    • What is really worrying is that if art is fashionable to own, then what happens when it becomes unfashionable?
    • Apparently, this is an unfashionable part of fashionable Takapuna.
    • So for an essay in popular science, the book's style is distinctly unfashionable.
    • Clean-cut, in sharp suits, and with short hair at a time when that was unfashionable, they prowled around muttering into wires that protruded from their shirt cuffs.
    • Their continued popularity is, I suspect, due to their unfashionable, housewifely nature.
    • The popular image of polka as unfashionable is often simply mockery of working-class folks.
    • I can get goat's cheese with apricot chutney and rocket on olive flavoured focaccia, but cheddar and Branston on white sliced seems to be terminally unfashionable.
    • Repairing wrecked companies is a tricky task, whether they are in fashionable businesses like telecoms, or deeply unfashionable metal-bashing.
    • Fern gardens were not at all unusual then but, for whatever reason, they became unfashionable and for years now the only place you could find them would be in the tropical houses at Kew.
    • Its name alone surely proves how quickly the unfashionable can become fashionable.
    Synonyms
    out of fashion, out of date, outdated, old-fashioned, outmoded, out of style, dated, behind the times, last year's, yesterday's, unpopular, unstylish, superseded, archaic, obsolete, antiquated
 
 
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