Old-fashioned

Quick meaning: Old-fashioned is an adjective meaning Of an object, outdated or no longer in vogue.

Meaning

Of an object, outdated or no longer in vogue.

More Meanings

1. Of a person, preferring the customs of earlier times and the old-style ways.
2. A cocktail made by muddling sugar with bitters and adding whiskey or, less commonly, brandy, served with a twist of citrus rind.
3. 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.

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

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

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.

Word Forms

• older-fashioned
• oldest-fashioned
• old-fashioneds

Synonyms for old-fashioned

Depending on context, synonyms include dated, oldfangled, outdated, anachronistic, antediluvial, antediluvian.

Antonyms for old-fashioned

Common opposites include newfangled.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include nonmodern, antique, outmoded, unfashionable, unstylish, passe.

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