hippie
/ˈhɪpi/
hippie noun: a teenager who imitated the beatniks.
Noun
hippie (plural hippies)
- A teenager who imitated the beatniks.
- Synonyms:
- beatnik
- One who chooses not to conform to prevailing social norms: especially one who subscribes to values or actions such as acceptance or self-practice of recreational drug use, liberal or radical sexual mores, advocacy of communal living, strong pacifism or anti-war sentiment, etc.
- Synonyms:
- tree hugger, flower child
- A person who keeps an unkempt or sloppy appearance and has unusually long hair (for males), and is thus often stereotyped as a deadbeat.
- Someone who dresses in a hippie style.
- Someone who is or tries to be hip.
- Near-synonyms: hipster, hepster, trendite; see also Thesaurus:fashionable person
- Synonyms:
- hipster, hepster, trendite, Corinthian, faddist, fashionable, fashionist, fashionista, hepcat, sophisto
Adjective
hippie (comparative hippier, superlative hippiest)
- Of or pertaining to hippies.
- That dress looks very hippie.
- The drug-taking he's writing about is less hippie than punk: it's about speed and smack and pills as much as hallucinogens and weed, about compulsion as well as escape.2011, Mike Marqusee, Wicked Messenger: Bob Dylan and the 1960s, →ISBN
- Not conforming to generally accepted standards.
- They used a bunch of hippie compression formats instead of the usual RAR and ZIP.
hippie meaning in Marathi, Urdu, Telugu and Arabic
hippie in Marathi
- 1960s nonconformist
- हिप्पी hippī
hippie in Urdu
- ہپی
hippie in Telugu
- హిప్పీ, హిప్పి
hippie in Arabic
- 1960s nonconformist
- هِبِيّ hibiyy, هِيبِيّ hībiyy, خَنْفُوس ḵanfūs, بُوهِيمِيّ buhīmī
Examples of hippie in a sentence
- You have to understand I worked in a very hippie nightclub for years, and the majority of the staff did not even like the Grateful Dead.2012, Christopher Lento, The Bartender Diaries...A Life Fantastic!, →ISBN, page 126:
- And then I discovered LSD, you can't get much more hippie than that.2013, Ian Young, It's Not about Me!: Confessions of a Recovered Outlaw Addict, →ISBN:
Synonyms of hippie
Forms of hippie
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | hippies |
| alternative form | hippy |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | hippier |
| superlative | hippiest |
Origin of hippie
From 1953, a usually disparaging variant of hipster. See also etymology of hippie.
Words formed from hippie
Phrases with hippie
Words that rhyme with hippie
Questions about hippie
- What does hippie mean?
- Hippie means a teenager who imitated the beatniks.
- What is hippie in Marathi?
- Hippie in Marathi is हिप्पी (hippī). See Hippie meaning in Marathi.
- How do you use hippie in a sentence?
- You have to understand I worked in a very hippie nightclub for years, and the majority of the staff did not even like the Grateful Dead.
- What part of speech is hippie?
- Hippie can be a noun or an adjective.
- How do you pronounce hippie?
- Hippie is pronounced /ˈhɪpi/.
- What is the plural of hippie?
- The plural of hippie is hippies.
Words near hippie in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: hippie (page history and authors); hippie (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hippie (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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