Adjective: fashionable
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more fashionable |
| Superlative | most fashionable |
Sample Sentences
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a fashionable dress
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a fashionable man
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the fashionable philosophy
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fashionable opinions
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fashionable society
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For time is like a faſhionable Hoſte / That ſlightly ſhakes his parting Gueſt by th'hand; [c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii], column 1:]
Adjectives inflected like fashionable
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. English fashion
3. Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
4. Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlomder.
5. Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
6. Proto-Italic *-ðlis
7. Latin -bilis
8. Latin -ābilis
9. Old French -ablebor.
10. Middle English -able
11. English -able
12. English fashionable
13. From fashion + -able.
Verbs referencing "fashionable"
French Adjectives
fashionable, German Adjectives
fesch, Czech Adjectives
fešný.