new-fashioned
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.94 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "He seemed very sentimental, very full of some Feelings or other, & very much addicted to all the newest-fashioned hard words—had not a very clear Brain she presumed, & talked a good deal by rote."
- "I don’t think the Dorrance place is as handsome as ours, after all, if it is newer-fashioned."
- "[Anthony] Trollope cannot be too much read to-day. He is not old-fashioned. On the contrary, he is far newer-fashioned than the bulk of novelists to-day. Trollope writes of life, of live people, real things. He convinces—the word is a perfectly good expressive word despite protests against it of late—people who know about life and the world and men and women of it; on the contrary, the six-shilling novelist of to-day usually half convinces people who do not know much about these things."
- "Duck with cherry sauce, named after a type of cherry grown near Paris. Not much newer-fashioned than duck with orange sauce, although both are quite tasty."
Inflected Forms
more new-fashioned (comparative)
newer-fashioned (comparative)
most new-fashioned (superlative)
newest-fashioned (superlative)