unchic
unchic adjective: unfashionable.
Adjective
unchic (comparative more unchic, superlative most unchic)
- unfashionable
- By 1936, Coward’s unchic loathing of appeasement and Neville Chamberlain (“that bloody conceited old sod”) was turning him into something of a Churchill bore.2008 April 13, Stephen Koch, “The Playboy Was a Spy”, in New York Times
- The sole image of Henry Cavendish captured in his lifetime shows an aristocratic-looking man in a frock coat, frilled shirt-wrists, and white stockings, wearing a knocker-tailed periwig under a black three-cornered hat. This was a defiantly unchic style of dress even in the late 1700s, and he wore...2015, Steve Silberman, chapter 1, in Megan Newman, editor, NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity, New York: Avery, →ISBN, page 20
Synonyms of unchic
Forms of unchic
| comparative | more unchic |
|---|---|
| superlative | most unchic |
Origin of unchic
From un- + chic.
Words formed from unchic
Questions about unchic
- What does unchic mean?
- Unchic means unfashionable.
- What part of speech is unchic?
- Unchic is an adjective.
Words near unchic in the dictionary
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