Other forms: trendiest, trendier
Trendy means following the very latest fashion. A trendy bar, trendy clothes, that area has got very trendy.
It is informal and it is very often slightly mocking — calling something trendy suggests it is following fashion rather than being good. Fashionable is the neutral word and stylish is the compliment. The noun trend means a general direction of change, and trending means currently popular on social media, which is a recent and now extremely common sense. Note that trendy is dated enough that using it about yourself is a small joke.
1adjectivetrendyFollowing the latest fashion.
“It is a trendy place and the coffee is terrible.”
synonyms: fashionable, stylish, in vogue
trendy is a quality of fashion.
Also accepted in games: fashionable, stylish
Old English
trendan — to roll about, turn, revolve
Middle English
trenden — to roll about, turn, revolve
English
trend
English, today
trendy
From trend + -y. trend comes from Middle English trenden (“to roll about, turn, revolve”), from Old English trendan (“to roll about, turn, revolve”). From Middle English trenden (“to roll about, turn, revolve”), from Old English trendan (“to roll about, turn, revolve”), from Proto-West Germanic trandijan (“to turn, roll, revolve”), apparently derived from a strong verb Proto-West Germanic trindan. Cognate with Dutch trent (“circumference”). Akin to Old English trinde (“ball”), Old English tryndel (“circle, ring”). More at trindle, trundle.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA