unfashionable

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ fashionable.

Adjective

unfashionable (comparative more unfashionable, superlative most unfashionable)

1. Not fashionable.
   • 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, chapter 2, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC:

     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.

2. (obsolete) That cannot be fashioned; unshapely, distorted.
   • c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act XI, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)]:

     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 ...

Synonyms

• (not fashionable): démodé, passé, unchic; see also Thesaurus:unfashionable
• (that cannot be fashioned): deformed, malformed, misshapen; see also Thesaurus:misshapen

Translations

not fashionable

• Dutch: onmodieus (nl)
• Finnish: epämuodikas
• French: quétaine (fr) (Quebec)
• Hungarian: divatjamúlt (hu), ódivatú (hu)
• Italian: fuori moda
• Persian: دمده (fa) (demode)
• Portuguese: fora de moda, brega (pt) (Brazil), cafona (pt) (Brazil)
• Romanian: demodat (ro)
• Russian: немо́дный (ru) (nemódnyj)
• Swedish: omodern (sv)