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modish

/ˈməʊdɪʃ/

modish adjective: conforming with fashion or style.

Adjective

modish (comparative more modish, superlative most modish)

  1. Conforming with fashion or style.
    • As we crossed Blackwell's Island a limousine passed us, driven by a white chauffeur, in which sat three modish negroes, two bucks and a girl.1925, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 83
    • 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...1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC
  2. In the current mode.
    • It’s surprisingly hard to track down plain old strawberry ice-cream these days – it seems to have been usurped by more modish combinations […]2020 August 12, Felicity Cloake, “How to make the perfect strawberry milkshake – recipe”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the...

modish meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada

modish in Tamil

நாகரிகமான, நவீன

modish in Urdu

طرح دار, وضعدار

modish in Malayalam

modern, fashionable, stylish
പരിഷ്കൃതമായ, പരിഷ്കാരമള്ള, പുതുമോടിയുള്ള, ഫാഷനുള്ള, സ്റ്റെെലുള്ള, പരിഷ്കാരരീതിക്കുള്ള

modish in Kannada

ಠಾಕುಠೀಕಾದ, ಷೋಕಾದ, ಸೊಗಸುಗಾರಿಕೆಯ, ಬೆಡಗಿನ, ವಯ್ಯಾರದ, ಅಲಂಕಾರಪ್ರಿಯತೆಯನ್ನು ಸೂಚಿಸುವ

Forms of modish

comparativemore modish
superlativemost modish

Origin of modish

From mode + -ish.

Words formed from modish

Questions about modish

What does modish mean?
Modish means conforming with fashion or style.
What is modish in Tamil?
Modish in Tamil is நாகரிகமான, நவீன. See Modish meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is modish?
Modish is an adjective.
How do you pronounce modish?
Modish is pronounced /ˈməʊdɪʃ/.

Words near modish in the dictionary

  1. modiomorphid
  2. modiomorphids
  3. Modis
  4. Modisette
  5. Modisettes
  6. modish
  7. modishest
  8. modishly
  9. modishness
  10. modishnesses
  11. modism

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: modish (page history and authors); modish (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); modish (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); modish (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); modish (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). 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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