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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Being in or conforming to the prevailing or current fashion; stylish.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • According to the mode or customary manner or style; fashionable; stylish: often used with a suggestion of contempt.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective According to the mode, or customary manner; conformed to the fashion; fashionable; hence, conventional

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  • adjective conforming with fashion or style
  • adjective in the current mode

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  • adjective in the current fashion or style

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Examples

  • Again, a certain kind of modish appearance seems important.

    Movie stars see their name in lights and on babies Andrew Pulver 2010

  • He was young and handsome, and although he wore the simple garb of the Quakers he had not yet perhaps quite forgotten the "modish" ways of his younger days, for about his waist he had knotted a pale blue scarf.

    This Country of Ours: The Story of the United States Henrietta Elizabeth 1917

  • Modcloth has vintage and indie goodies galore, including a brand new Valentine's Day collection of clothing and accessories that is just dreamy! psst: use code "modish" at checkout and receive 10\% off your order

    Modish 2009

  • (That was a subtle touch by the writer, parenthetically using modish, meaning

    Mr. Verb 2009

  • Gradually, though, I realized, that Luz, the school's elegant, middle-aged director, and modish, twenty-five-year-old Luis could talk on or join us for comida (the big afternoon meal) because they weren't rushing off somewhere.

    Eight surprises from a senior year abroad in Oaxaca, Mexico 2009

  • Meatballs may be modish, but I think they're best done simply: beef and pork, peppery parsley, sweet onion and the aromatic anise of fennel seeds, lightened with breadcrumbs and quick fried to give a deep brown, caramelised crust.

    How to cook perfect meatballs 2011

  • This year's shortlist, for instance, is not sensational, modish, tendentious or obscure.

    Turner prize 2010 – review Laura Cumming 2010

  • If this sounds like European avant-garde theatre at its most off-puttingly modish, the effect is in fact kookily funny and coolly self-aware.

    Thomas Ostermeier: 'Hamlet? The play's a mess' 2011

  • A couple of painted wooden busts of early 16th-century South Netherlandish fashion plates—probably some of St. Ursula's martyred companions—conceal skull fragments under complicated hairstyles and modish clothing.

    Where Revered Relics Repose Karen Wilkin 2011

  • However, the final verdict is expected enough: So as much as I want to grab the panelists by their modish lapels and shake them and demand to know exactly what the hell they're talking about, it is not my right to do so, for I am not there by invitation, I am not a member of their community, and I have no right to expect that their words should mean anything to me.

    Literary Study 2009

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