unfashionable

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Unfashionable means out of favour with current taste. An unfashionable view, unfashionable clothes, deeply unfashionable.

Of an opinion it is nearly a boast, since holding an unfashionable view implies you hold it because it is right. Of clothes it is simply a description, and everything unfashionable becomes fashionable again in about thirty years.

Definitions of unfashionable

1adjectiveunfashionableOut of favour with current taste.B2+
“Flared jeans were unfashionable for years before they came back into style.”

unfashionable is a quality.

Where it comes from

From un- + fashionable.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

unfashionable in the wild

Croydon can be replaced by the name of any other unfashionable residential area.
Croydon facelift
Much of his work was condemned by critics for being overly decadent and unfashionable.
Edmund John
In the past, it had a generally pejorative meaning of a "peculiar person, especially one who is perceived to be overly intellectual, unfashionable, boring, or socially awkward".
Geek
The movement attracted a lot of attention and achieved some success during its duration, such as making corsets unfashionable among school girls.
Swedish Dress Reform Association

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