What does fashionable mean?
Word: Fashionable
Part of Speech: Adjective
Meaning: Fashionable means popular or in style at a particular time; following the latest fashion.
Synonyms: stylish, trendy, smart, modern
Antonyms: unfashionable, old-fashioned
How do you spell fashionable?
Syllables: fash - ion - a - ble
Tricky part: Fashion keeps its io, fash-ion, even though you hear only a quick 'shun'.
Watch out for: fashonable, fasionable, fashinable
Memory tip: Think 'I put On something fashionable': the i and o sit together in fash-IO-n.
Fashionable in a sentence
Example 1: Wide-leg trousers have become fashionable again.
Example 2: The new cafe on the corner is the most fashionable place in town.
Example 3: My grandmother says bell sleeves were fashionable when she was in college.
Fun Fact
Fashion comes from the Latin factio, 'a making', from facere, 'to make'; the word first meant the shape or make of something, and only later the latest style of clothes.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Makeup
Choose the suffix that completes the word:
fashion____
a) eble
b) ible
c) abel
d) able
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d) able. Fashion is a full word on its own, and full words usually take this ending, as in comfortable.
Word Connection
Choose the antonym of the word:
fashionable
a) colourful
b) outdated
c) practical
d) expensive
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b) outdated. Outdated clothes are the ones nobody calls fashionable any more.
Mingle-Mangle
Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:
bahsolanife
a) fashioned
b) fashioning
c) fashionably
d) fashionable
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d) fashionable. Fashioned and fashioning bring in a d or g and lose the b, and fashionably ends in y; eleven letters ending in e give fashionable.
Word Cookie
Find the extra letter in the word:
fasshionable
a) s
b) i
c) h
d) n
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a) s. Fashion has one s before its h, as in fish.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which sentence uses fashionable correctly?
a) The river was fashionable after the rain.
b) The test was very fashionable to solve.
c) Bright trainers are fashionable this year.
d) He fashionable the clay into a pot.
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c) Bright trainers are fashionable this year.
2. A song that is fashionable this summer will probably be ____.
a) played once and then forgotten
b) known only to its writer
c) heard everywhere for a while
d) sung only by grandparents
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c) heard everywhere for a while
