unfashionable
/ənfˈæʃənəbəl/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.44 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
5
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Not fashionable.
Example Sentences
- "The fashionable intelligence says so for the comfort of the Parisians, and it knows all fashionable things. To know things otherwise were to be unfashionable."
- "I, that am rudely stamp'd, and want love's majesty To strut before a wanton ambling nymph; I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deformed, unfinish'd, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them ..."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English fashion Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Italic *-ðlom Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English fashionable English unfashionable From un- + fashionable.
Usage
Inflected Forms
more unfashionable (comparative)
most unfashionable (superlative)