- unfashionable
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adjective
Date: 1648
1. not in keeping with the current fashion <unfashionable clothes> 2. not favored socially <unfashionable neighborhoods> • unfashionableness noun • unfashionably adverb
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
unfashionable
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