modish

English

Etymology

From mode +‎ -ish.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈməʊdɪʃ/

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Adjective

modish (comparative more modish, superlative most modish)

1. Conforming with fashion or style.
   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

     The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, when modish taste was just due to go clean out of fashion for the best part of the next hundred years.

2. In the current mode.

Derived terms

• modishly
• modishness
• unmodish

Anagrams

• domish