modish
/ˈməʊdɪʃ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.13 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Conforming with fashion or style.
Example Sentences
- "As we crossed Blackwell's Island a limousine passed us, driven by a white chauffeur, in which sat three modish negroes, two bucks and a girl."
- "The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, when modish taste was just due to go clean out of fashion for the best part of the next hundred years."
- "It’s surprisingly hard to track down plain old strawberry ice-cream these days – it seems to have been usurped by more modish combinations […]"
Etymology
Etymology tree English mode Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-isk Old English -isċ Middle English -isch English -ish English modish From mode + -ish.
Inflected Forms
more modish (comparative)
most modish (superlative)