old-fashioned en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /oʊldˈfæʃənd/ (General-American)
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- /əʊldˈfæʃənd/ (Received-Pronunciation)
Etymology
From old + fashioned. The cocktail (which goes back to at least the early 1800s) got its name in the late 1800s as more complicated cocktails became common and those who preferred simpler drinks began asking for old-fashioned cocktails.
Meanings
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Of an object, outdated or no longer in vogue.
Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path[…]. It twisted and turned,[…]and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn. And, back of the lawn, was a big, old-fashioned house, with piazzas stretching in front of it, and all blazing with lights.
1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC, page 18:Miss Menie, we should mention, has a commendable desire to sell her oldest-fashioned articles first; indeed, we believe that something of the sort has always been common among mercers. It is true, that the most conscientious of the trade make a point, in such cases, to say nothing of the fashionableness of the patterns, but in proportion to the care with which they do this, they enlarge on the good qualities of the texture and durability.
1822 September, “[The Gathering of the West; or, We’re Come to See the King.] Greenock Folk.”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume XII, number LXVIII, Edinburgh: William Blackwood; London: T[homas] Cadell, […], page 309, column 1:Walter Wren & Co. were a china clay firm right enough, but much smaller and older-fashioned than CCC.
2012, Robert Goddard, Fault Line, London: Bantam Press, →ISBN, page 13:My bike is old-fashioned but it gets me around.
She was seated in a low old-fashioned arm-chair, directly below a portrait of herself, that had been taken just before her first visit to London.
1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIX, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 320:T. S. Eliot suspects Mr. Pound’s philosophy of being antiquated. W. C. Williams finds his “versification still patterned after classic metres”; and, apropos of ‘feminolatry,’ is not the view of woman expressed by the Cantos older-fashioned than that of Siam and Abyssinia? knowledge of the femaleness of “chaos”, of the “octopus”, of “Our mulberry leaf, woman,” appertaining more to the Grand Turk than to a Roger Ascham?
1931 October, Marianne Moore, “[Reviews] The Cantos: A Draft of XXX Cantos, by Ezra Pound. Hours Press, Paris.”, in Harriet Monroe, editor, Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, volume XXXIX, number I, Chicago, Ill., page 44:
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Of a person, preferring the customs of earlier times and the old-style ways.
The people of Marken may almost be regarded as the oldest-fashioned in the world. They adhere to the same picturesque costume as was worn by their ancestors three hundred years ago, and their houses are built in the same primitive style as in those days.
1879, Albert Hastings Markham, “The Dutch Flag in the Northern Seas”, in Donald Macleod, editor, Good Words for 1879, London: Isbister and Company, […], part I, page 95, column 2:You can’t stay the night, because my parents are a bit old-fashioned.
It neither aims at, nor does it admit of, the gorgeousness of its predecessor; mainly, or at least partly, because it does not aim at or admit of that predecessor’s variety of rhythm. / In the respect with which alone we have to do, Steele is merely a more careless Addison, and Arbuthnot, in this as in others, is almost inseparable from Swift. Atterbury is slightly older-fashioned than the others, and nearer the Dryden group.
1912, George Saintsbury, “Augustan Prose”, in A History of English Prose Rhythm, London: Macmillan and Co., […], page 252:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| older-fashioned | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| old fashioned | alternative | lexicographic | |
| more old-fashioned | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| oldest-fashioned | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| most old-fashioned | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |
Antonyms
Deriveds
old-fashioned look · old-fashionedly · old-fashionedness · old fashioned glass
Hypernyms
Synonyms
unemployed · anachronistic · outworn · normie · passé · archaic · oldfangled · cobwebby · hoary · unstylish · rinky-dink · dated · workless · outmoded · passé · outdated · superseded · oldfangled · elderly · old · uncool · démodé · out of fashion · unoccupied · old school · behind the times · dootsie · antique · ossified · extinct · Miss Havishamesque · venerable · inelegant · outmoded · cheugy · out · unchic · old-fashioned · outdated · desuete · old-fashioned · antediluvian · superannuated · fossilized · backwards · out of fashion · out of touch · discontinued · tacky · dated · unhip · fossilized · idle · mouldy · primitive · old-time · cobwebbed · out of date · disused · oldfangled · unpopular · parachronistic · old · out of date · basic · cringeworthy · cringe · Havishamesque · defunct · antediluvial · dated · obsolete · elderly · cringey · old-hat · outdated · untrendy · antiquated · unfashionable · last year · expired · backward
Translations (133)
fr à l'ancienne (outdated or no longer in vogue) · gd seann-fhasanta (outdated or no longer in vogue) · ja 昔風 (outdated or no longer in vogue) · gd seann-nòsach (preferring the customs of earlier times) · cmn 過時 /过时 (preferring the customs of earlier times) · sv gammaldags (outdated or no longer in vogue) · es a la antigua usanza (preferring the customs of earlier times) · ro nostalgic (preferring the customs of earlier times) · ajp دقّة قديمة (preferring the customs of earlier times) · es chapado a la antigua (preferring the customs of earlier times) · gd seann-nòsach (outdated or no longer in vogue) · fi vanhanaikainen (preferring the customs of earlier times) · nl ouderwets (preferring the customs of earlier times) · cmn 古板 (preferring the customs of earlier times) · nrf dêmodé (outdated or no longer in vogue) · nb gammaldags (preferring the customs of earlier times) · cmn 過時 /过时 (outdated or no longer in vogue) · pl staromodny (outdated or no longer in vogue) · pt démodé (outdated or no longer in vogue) · eo antikva (outdated or no longer in vogue) · de antiquiert (outdated or no longer in vogue) · mk старомо́ден (outdated or no longer in vogue) · uk застарілий (outdated or no longer in vogue) · es carca (preferring the customs of earlier times) · fi vanhanaikainen (outdated or no longer in vogue) · ru старомо́дный (preferring the customs of earlier times) · ka ძველმოდური (outdated or no longer in vogue) · th ล้าสมัย (outdated or no longer in vogue) · sh demodȇ (outdated or no longer in vogue) · cmn 陳舊 /陈旧 (outdated or no longer in vogue) · tr eski moda (outdated or no longer in vogue) · hu ódivatú (outdated or no longer in vogue) · es vetusto (outdated or no longer in vogue) · fr démodé (outdated or no longer in vogue) · my ရှေ (outdated or no longer in vogue) · fr de la vieille école (preferring the customs of earlier times) · pl staroświecki (outdated or no longer in vogue) · fr vieilli (outdated or no longer in vogue) · es desfasado (preferring the customs of earlier times) · ms jenis lama (preferring the customs of earlier times) · ro învechit (outdated or no longer in vogue) · ms jenis lama (outdated or no longer in vogue) · ru устаре́вший (outdated or no longer in vogue) · es rancio (outdated or no longer in vogue) · es a la antigua (preferring the customs of earlier times) · vi không hợp thời trang (outdated or no longer in vogue) · da gammeldags (outdated or no longer in vogue) · cmn 封建 (preferring the customs of earlier times) · pt demodê (outdated or no longer in vogue) · es anticuado (outdated or no longer in vogue) · ja 旧弊 (preferring the customs of earlier times) · la vetustus (outdated or no longer in vogue) · bg старомо́ден (outdated or no longer in vogue) · hy հնաոճ (preferring the customs of earlier times) · mk старомо́ден (preferring the customs of earlier times) · grc ἀρχαιότροπος (preferring the customs of earlier times) · et vanamoodne (preferring the customs of earlier times) · el παλιομοδίτικος (outdated or no longer in vogue) · vi cũ (outdated or no longer in vogue) · ka ძველმოდური (preferring the customs of earlier times) · de verzopft (outdated or no longer in vogue) · it antiquato (outdated or no longer in vogue) · pt à moda antiga (preferring the customs of earlier times) · cmn 陳舊 /陈旧 (preferring the customs of earlier times) · cmn 老式 (outdated or no longer in vogue) · de unzeitgemäß (outdated or no longer in vogue) · ms fesyen lama (preferring the customs of earlier times) · de altväterisch (outdated or no longer in vogue) · pt antiquado (preferring the customs of earlier times) · th คร่ำครึ (outdated or no longer in vogue) · bg консервативен (preferring the customs of earlier times) · cs staromódní (preferring the customs of earlier times) · ko 구식의 (outdated or no longer in vogue) · nb gammaldags (outdated or no longer in vogue) · he מיושן (outdated or no longer in vogue) · lb almoudesch (outdated or no longer in vogue) · nn gamaldags (outdated or no longer in vogue) · is gamaldags (outdated or no longer in vogue) · fr ringard (outdated or no longer in vogue) · is gamaldags (preferring the customs of earlier times) · nn gammaldags (preferring the customs of earlier times) · et moest läinud (outdated or no longer in vogue) · tr modası geçmiş (outdated or no longer in vogue) · grc ἀρχαιότροπος (outdated or no longer in vogue) · fr vieux jeu (preferring the customs of earlier times) · he מיושן (preferring the customs of earlier times) · nl ouderwets (outdated or no longer in vogue) · nn gammaldags (outdated or no longer in vogue) · de altväterlich (outdated or no longer in vogue) · el παλιομοδίτης (preferring the customs of earlier times) · hu divatjamúlt (outdated or no longer in vogue) · gl anticuado (outdated or no longer in vogue) · it vecchio stile (preferring the customs of earlier times) · sv gammalmodig (outdated or no longer in vogue) · es chapado a la antigua (outdated or no longer in vogue) · ru старомо́дный (outdated or no longer in vogue) · de altmodisch (outdated or no longer in vogue) · ja 旧弊 (outdated or no longer in vogue) · cmn 保守 (preferring the customs of earlier times) · ms fesyen lama (outdated or no longer in vogue) · io ekmoda (outdated or no longer in vogue) · sh демоде̑ (outdated or no longer in vogue) · es pasado de moda (outdated or no longer in vogue) · sv gammalmodig (preferring the customs of earlier times) · es demodé (outdated or no longer in vogue) · es trasnochado (outdated or no longer in vogue) · de unmodern (outdated or no longer in vogue) · es desfasado (outdated or no longer in vogue) · nb gammeldags (outdated or no longer in vogue) · no gammelmodig (preferring the customs of earlier times) · pt antiquado (outdated or no longer in vogue) · nn gamaldags (preferring the customs of earlier times) · nb gammeldags (preferring the customs of earlier times) · it fuori moda (outdated or no longer in vogue) · eo malmoderna (outdated or no longer in vogue) · pdt ooltmoodsch (preferring the customs of earlier times) · es de antigua estampa (preferring the customs of earlier times) · pt antigo (preferring the customs of earlier times) · de zopfig (outdated or no longer in vogue) · hu régimódi (preferring the customs of earlier times) · pl staromodny (preferring the customs of earlier times) · sv gammeldags (outdated or no longer in vogue) · es pasadista (preferring the customs of earlier times) · tr eski kafalı (preferring the customs of earlier times) · de altmodisch (preferring the customs of earlier times) · ja 古臭い (outdated or no longer in vogue) · da gammeldags (preferring the customs of earlier times) · ro demodat (outdated or no longer in vogue) · cmn 守舊 /守旧 (preferring the customs of earlier times) · la priscus (outdated or no longer in vogue) · uk старомо́дний (outdated or no longer in vogue) · cmn 古板 (outdated or no longer in vogue) · it sorpassato (outdated or no longer in vogue)