OLD-FASHIONED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does old-fashioned mean? 

• OLD-FASHIONED (adjective)
  The adjective OLD-FASHIONED has 1 sense:

1. out of fashion

  Familiarity information: OLD-FASHIONED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OLD-FASHIONED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Out of fashion

Synonyms:

antique; demode; ex; old-fashioned; old-hat; outmoded; passe; passee

Context example:

outmoded ideas

Similar:

unfashionable; unstylish (not in accord with or not following current fashion)

Derivation:

old-fashionedness (the property of being no longer fashionable)

 Context examples 

She put down her book on seeing me come in; and having welcomed me as usual, took her work-basket and sat in one of the old-fashioned windows.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I examined the document long: the writing was old-fashioned and rather uncertain, like that of an elderly lady.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Next day to London, where you will meet the great people, Roddy, and learn to look down upon—to look down upon your poor, simple, old-fashioned father and mother.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I admire all that quaint, old-fashioned politeness; it is much more to my taste than modern ease; modern ease often disgusts me.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

We had a capital "severe tea" at Robin Hood's Bay in a sweet little old-fashioned inn, with a bow-window right over the seaweed-covered rocks of the strand.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

She had to wash the cups every morning, and polish up the old-fashioned spoons, the fat silver teapot, and the glasses till they shone.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

My evidence showed that the door had been fastened upon the inner side, and the windows were blocked by old-fashioned shutters with broad iron bars, which were secured every night.

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

The Gloria Scott had been in the Chinese tea trade, but she was an old-fashioned, heavy-bowed, broad-beamed craft, and the new clippers had cut her out.

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

Instead, date the old-fashioned way, by having friends make introductions.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

As he spoke he turned over another portion of the carpet, and there, sure enough, was a great crimson spill upon the square white facing of the old-fashioned floor.

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