old-fashioned
Etymology

From old + fashion + -ed.

Pronunciation
  • (America) IPA: /oʊldˈfæʃənd/
  • (RP) IPA: /əʊldˈfæʃənd/
Adjective

old-fashioned

  1. Of a thing: outdated or no longer in vogue.
    Synonyms: dated, oldfangled, outdated, Thesaurus:obsolete, Thesaurus:unfashionable
    My bike is old-fashioned but it gets me around.
    • 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIX, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC ↗, page 320 ↗:
      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.
    • 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC ↗, page 18 ↗:
      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.
  2. Of a person: preferring the customs of earlier times and the old-style ways.
    You can’t stay the night, because my parents are a bit old-fashioned.
Antonyms Translations Translations Noun

old-fashioned (plural old-fashioneds)

  1. A cocktail made by muddling sugar with bitters and adding whiskey or, less commonly, brandy, served with a twist of citrus rind. [from late 19th c.]
    • 1996, Paul F. Boller, Presidential Anecdotes, page 286:
      At the end of the workday, the Trumans liked to have a cocktail before dinner. Shortly after they moved into the White House, Mrs. Truman rang for the butler, Alonzo Fields, one afternoon and ordered two old-fashioneds.



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