modish

[moh-dish]

adjective

1. in the current fashion; stylish.

   Synonyms: trendy, fashionable, chic, smart

modish

/ ˈməʊdɪʃ /

adjective

1. in the current fashion or style; contemporary

Other Word Forms

• modishly adverb
• modishness noun
• unmodish adjective
• unmodishly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of modish¹

First recorded in 1650–60; mode ² + -ish ¹

Example Sentences

Gray surrounded himself with what journalist Jack Anderson called “sharp, but inexperienced, modish, young aides.”

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Her appointment in San Francisco, under that ensemble’s modish music director, Seiji Ozawa, “projected a forward-looking vision of classical music,” the scholar Grace Wang has written.

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“Bills, Bills, Bills” is dizzyingly complex, “Jumpin’, Jumpin’” is futuristically forceful and Beyoncé’s singing at the end of “Bug a Boo” is a soaring interjection of traditional glory into the modish present.

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Hybridity, though of a different kind, is far more than a modish buzzword for the British designer Grace Wales Bonner, whose award-winning work has consistently mined the tensions inherent in racial, cultural and sexual intersection.

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It is still uncertain, though, whether off-the-shelf exoskeletons can be made affordable, comfortable or modish enough for most of us to wish to wear one.

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