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newfashioned

newfashioned is the alternative form of new-fashioned.

Meaning of new-fashioned

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...

Forms of newfashioned

comparativemore newfashioned
superlativemost newfashioned

Questions about newfashioned

What is newfashioned the alternative form of?
Newfashioned is the alternative form of new-fashioned.

Words near newfashioned in the dictionary

  1. newfangling
  2. newfanglist
  3. newfanglists
  4. newfangly
  5. newfashion
  6. newfashioned
  7. Newfie
  8. Newfie joke
  9. Newfie jokes
  10. newfiedoodle
  11. newfiedoodles

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