FASHIONABLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fashionably mean? 

• FASHIONABLY (adverb)
  The adverb FASHIONABLY has 1 sense:

1. in a fashionable manner

  Familiarity information: FASHIONABLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FASHIONABLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a fashionable manner

Context example:

his voice had no trace of the drawl that you would expect to find in a fashionably dressed young man

Antonym:

unfashionably (in an unfashionable manner)

Pertainym:

fashionable (being or in accordance with current social fashions)

 Context examples 

Five hundred fashionably gowned women turned their heads, so intent and steadfast was Martin's gaze, to see what he was seeing.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I was not surprised, therefore, on Monday night when a Mr. Latimer, a very fashionably dressed young man, came up to my rooms and asked me to accompany him in a cab which was waiting at the door.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Her porch was bright with the bought luxury of star-shine; the wicker of the settee squeaked fashionably as she turned toward him and he kissed her curious and lovely mouth.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

There was dancing now on the canvas in the garden, old men pushing young girls backward in eternal graceless circles, superior couples holding each other tortuously, fashionably and keeping in the corners—and a great number of single girls dancing individualistically or relieving the orchestra for a moment of the burden of the banjo or the traps.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)