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new-fashioned

new-fashioned adjective: newly made.

Adjective

new-fashioned (comparative more new-fashioned or newer-fashioned, superlative most new-fashioned or newest-fashioned)

  1. Newly made.
  2. Up-to-date, fashionable or avant-garde.
    • He seemed very sentimental, very full of some Feelings or other, & very much addicted to all the newest-fashioned hard words—had not a very clear Brain she presumed, & talked a good deal by rote.1817 (date written), Jane Austen, chapter 7, in R[aymond] W[ilson] Chambers, editor, Fragment of a Novel Written by Jane Austen, January–March 1817 […] [Sanditon], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon...
    • I don’t think the Dorrance place is as handsome as ours, after all, if it is newer-fashioned.1867 December, “Light and Shadow”, in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, volume XXXVI, number CCXI, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], published 1868, page 84, column 2

Antonyms of new-fashioned

Forms of new-fashioned

comparativemore new-fashioned
comparativenewer-fashioned
superlativemost new-fashioned
superlativenewest-fashioned

Questions about new-fashioned

What does new-fashioned mean?
New-fashioned means newly made.
What part of speech is new-fashioned?
New-fashioned is an adjective.

Words near new-fashioned in the dictionary

  1. new-comers
  2. new-country project
  3. new-energy vehicle
  4. new-energy vehicles
  5. new-fangled
  6. new-fashioned
  7. new-found
  8. new-founded
  9. new-front
  10. new-fronting
  11. new-furnish

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