Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Not in current fashion.
  • adjective Not socially approved.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Incapable of being fashioned or shaped.
  • Not fashionable, in any sense.
  • Shapeless; deformed.

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  • adjective Not fashionable

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective not in accord with or not following current fashion

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Examples

  • 18To put it in unfashionable terminology: the elite household endowed these noblewomen with agency.

    From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558 2008

  • The director of lobby group, Tasmanians United Against Norman Baker, today called for all Tasmanians to boycott Baker’s electorate of Lewes, in unfashionable East Sussex.

    A Very English Front Line Newmania 2007

  • But the unfashionable are always the majority, and they are not unfashionable because they choose to be.

    The Cathedral is not mentioned in the Constitution « Isegoria 2008

  • It means that you don't have to apologize for wearing things that are held to be "unflattering" or "unfashionable" -- especially if, in fact, they make you happy on some level deeper than just being pretty does.

    Archive 2007-05-01 Ann Althouse 2007

  • It means that you don't have to apologize for wearing things that are held to be "unflattering" or "unfashionable" -- especially if, in fact, they make you happy on some level deeper than just being pretty does.

    October 2006 2006

  • It means that you don't have to apologize for wearing things that are held to be "unflattering" or "unfashionable" -- especially if, in fact, they make you happy on some level deeper than just being pretty does.

    You Don't Have to Be Pretty - A Dress A Day 2006

  • 'What is encouraging, looking at the Championship this year, is whenyou see what you might call the unfashionable clubs hanging around thepromotion places.'

    Football.co.uk news feed 2009

  • 'What is encouraging, looking at the Championship this year, is whenyou see what you might call the unfashionable clubs hanging around thepromotion places.'

    Football.co.uk news feed 2009

  • 'What is encouraging, looking at the Championship this year, is whenyou see what you might call the unfashionable clubs hanging around thepromotion places.'

    Football.co.uk news feed 2009

  • 'What is encouraging, looking at the Championship this year, is whenyou see what you might call the unfashionable clubs hanging around thepromotion places.'

    Football.co.uk news feed 2009

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