Old-fashioned

/oʊldˈfæʃənd/ · adjective

Meaning

Of an object, outdated or no longer in vogue..

Definitions by Sense

1. Of an object, outdated or no longer in vogue.
2. Of a person, preferring the customs of earlier times and the old-style ways.
3. A cocktail made by muddling sugar with bitters and adding whiskey or, less commonly, brandy, served with a twist of citrus rind.
4. A type of doughnut with a cakelike consistency and a rough surface, usually made with cultured buttermilk and chemical leaven and fried at a lower temperature.

Example Sentences

My bike is old-fashioned but it gets me around.

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.

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.

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.

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?

Walter Wren & Co. were a china clay firm right enough, but much smaller and older-fashioned than CCC.

You can’t stay the night, because my parents are a bit old-fashioned.

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.

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• more old-fashioned
• older-fashioned
• most old-fashioned
• oldest-fashioned
• old fashioned
• old-fashioneds

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