trendy
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Origin of trendy
Explanation
Trendy describes something that's stylish or popular, like skinny jeans or fancy coffee drinks. If your shoes are the newest, coolest kind of sneakers, they are trendy. If all of your neighbors seem to suddenly have Great Dane puppies, you can say that's a trendy dog breed in your neighborhood. Trendy is a relatively recent adjective, first formed in the mid-1960's from the noun trend, which originally meant "the way something bends," and later came to mean "general tendency."
Vocabulary lists containing trendy
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Example Sentences
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It's a short journey from Zhu's home in Guangzhou on China's southern coast to the crowded street in Hong Kong's Sham Shui Po district, where Hunter is sandwiched between fabric sellers, garages and trendy cafes.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
At that time, charitable giving was trendy in the tech sector, with brands like Microsoft boasting of their employees’ multimillion-dollar donations—complete with matching funds—and the companies’ own philanthropic efforts.
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026
Eleven Madison Park, New York, 2000: I found myself seated at a circular table in a trendy restaurant with a memorable crowd.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
Of course, when the dancers of the Los Angeles Ballet dress for rehearsal, they’re not concerned with defining a trendy aesthetic.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
Didn't she know that all the other girls in my freshman class were sporting the coveted and trendy two-eyebrow look?
From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi
By the early 80s psychobillies, soul boys, trendies, goths, skinheads, rockers, and mods all co-existed, often uneasily.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2015
Young trendies run it; even younger trendies sit at long tables sipping complicated coffees.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 11, 2014
It's drawn in an outlandish mix of posh English people, Brooklyn trendies and the type of bohemian kids that probably have a very big house nearby.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 9, 2011
Here and there, sunglassed trendies wearing 3-in. platform shoes, English-slogan T shirts and zipper-pocketed jeans share the sidewalks with young women whose ruffled shirts are incongruously set off by knee-high stockings.
From Time Magazine Archive
Scottsdale is a wealthy suburb of Phoenix, known as "Scottsdull" to scoffing local trendies, but well-equipped with posh shopping-malls and manicured lawns, while conspicuously undersupplied with homeless derelicts.
From The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier by Bruce Sterling
But on a call with analysts following results, CEO Brian Niccol focused on what he said was working for the company — trendier products, faster service and more food options.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026
Walmart WMT 0.42%increase; green up pointing triangle is leaning into trendier home goods that, in some cases, are more upscale.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 19, 2026
Over time, Pizza Hut's market has been sliced up and distributed to its trendier, more nimble rivals.
From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2025
“Even with the low prices, business was good until around 2016, when I started seeing all the art galleries and trendier restaurants coming to the neighborhood,” Luu said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2025
He calls back, but I don't answer, because I'm on Facebook, looking at Tiny's profile, paging through his 1,532 friends, each cuter and trendier than the last.
From "Will Grayson, Will Grayson" by John Green and David Levithan
In the styrofoam boxes of New York’s halal carts and the cast-iron dishware of its trendiest restaurants.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026
It is still being widely shared, and is regularly played in the trendiest places in the country's major cities.
From BBC ● Jan. 13, 2025
So unless Princess Akemi had the trendiest French magazines, it just doesn’t make sense for her to use it.
From Salon ● Dec. 23, 2023
It’s not about you being the trendiest — this is your authentic style, and you’re just you, and when people think of you they know.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 6, 2023
Even the trendiest stores with the broadest selection of culinary herbs probably won’t stock this gourmet green.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 18, 2023
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
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