fash·ion·able
ˈfa-shə-nə-bəl 
ˈfash-nə-bəl
1
: conforming to the custom, fashion, or established mode
2
: of or relating to the world of fashion
: a fashionable person
Examples of fashionable in a Sentence
Adjective
It isn't fashionable to express such an opinion these days.
fashionable people who know all the right restaurants
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Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Apr. 2025
Whistler elongates the fashionable figures into letter openers, and life into a series of dinner invitations to be sliced open.
—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2025
News Desk, Artforum, 12 Feb. 2025
Sunbathing was suddenly a thing, and Coco Chanel made having a tan fashionable.
—Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Dec. 2023
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Adjective
For example, one of the male characters in the story named Dingley will wear two vests on top of one other, which Reynoso said was inspired by the early 2000s clothing trend when fashionable young men wore two layered Polo shirts with their collars popped up.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Apr. 2025
Whistler elongates the fashionable figures into letter openers, and life into a series of dinner invitations to be sliced open.
—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2025
Noun
Using X-rays and infrared imaging, conservators discovered a second figure beneath the paint, that of a woman, her hair worn in the style of chignon fashionable in Paris at the turn of the twentieth century.
—News Desk, Artforum, 12 Feb. 2025
Sunbathing was suddenly a thing, and Coco Chanel made having a tan fashionable.
—Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Dec. 2023
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“Fashionable.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fashionable. Accessed 11 Apr. 2025.
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