fashionable

Popular at the moment because it matches the styles people currently like.

• Those shoes are fashionable.
• She bought a fashionable coat for winter.
• Wide trousers have become fashionable again.

Similar words: trendy, stylish, in fashion

Opposites: unfashionable, outdated

Common phrases: fashionable clothes, a fashionable jacket, look fashionable

Widely accepted or favored at a particular time, especially an idea, opinion, or practice.

• That theory was once fashionable.
• It became fashionable to question every established belief.
• Her research challenged the fashionable opinions of the time.

How to use it: it is fashionable to do something (It was fashionable to dismiss older theories.)

Similar words: popular, current, prevailing

Opposites: unfashionable

Common phrases: a fashionable theory, fashionable opinion, fashionable thinking