Adjective: modish
Pronunciation: (mow-dish)
Modish meaning: In the current fashion or style
Synonyms: in style, in vogue, latest, fashionable, happening
Quotations: Antonio Carluccio – Over drinks, we took in the view of lush foothills and farm terraces. Across the road was a new looking restaurant with an Anglicised name and no terrace outside. As elsewhere across Italy, Bergamo has seen the opening of modish, new Italian . They tend to be a ridiculous combination of some Michelin-led story and the fact that, say, footballers dine there. They are targeting the nouveau riche and eating in these places tends to be like eating in a chemist’s shop. Let the stars eat bad food alone.
Thomas Mann – We, when we sow the seeds of doubt deeper than the most up-to-date and modish free-thought has ever dreamed of doing, we well know what we are about. Only out of radical skeptics, out of moral chaos, can the Absolute spring, the anointed Terror of which the time has need.
Sample sentences:
- Modishness is elegance by virtue of being fashionable.
- They all were modishly dressed.