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Webster 1913 Edition


Modish

Mod′ish

,
Adj.
According to the mode, or customary manner; conformed to the fashion; fashionable; hence, conventional;
as, a
modish
dress; a
modish
feast.
Dryden.
Modish forms of address.”
Barrow.
Mod′ish-ly
,
adv.
Mod′ish-ness
,
Noun.

Webster 1828 Edition


Modish

MO'DISH

,
Adj.
[from mode.] According to the mode or customary manner; fashionable; as a modish dress; a modish feast.

Definition 2024


modish

modish

English

Adjective

modish (comparative more modish or modisher, superlative most modish or modishest)

  1. Conforming with fashion or style.
    • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess:
      The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, when modish taste was just due to go clean out of fashion for the best part of the next hundred years.
  2. In the current mode.

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