- following a style that is popular at a particular time
- fashionable clothes/ideas/styles
- He was laughed at by his more fashionable friends.
- it is fashionable to do something It's becoming fashionable to have long hair again.
- fashionable among somebody Such thinking is currently fashionable among right-wing politicians.
Extra ExamplesTopics Clothes and Fashionb1- These cars are no longer fashionable among the young.
- a young and suddenly fashionable actor
- ‘Exchange’ is currently a fashionable word in archaeology.
- Everything Italian suddenly became fashionable.
- Recently it has become fashionable to dismiss this theory.
- The illustration shows examples of fashionable dress in the late 1840s.
- Pyjamas have become fashionable daywear.
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- extremely
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- used or visited by people following a current fashion, especially by rich people
- a fashionable address/resort/restaurant
- She lives in a very fashionable part of London.
- The shop moved to a more fashionable address.
- The play is a satire on fashionable society in Victorian times.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- look
- become
- …
- extremely
- highly
- very
- …
- among
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