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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Founded in the eastern Chinese city of Nanjing in 2012, Shein has become one of the world’s most popular fast-fashion brands by selling ultracheap, trendy apparel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
It was in trendy London wine bars where Dominic Lee, 26, first encountered a chilled red.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
Some on Wall Street are growing increasingly concerned that leveraged ETFs are becoming more of a force in markets — potentially amplifying volatility in key corners of the stock market, like trendy semiconductor names.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 9, 2026
Still, fans of A24’s output are unnerved by the foray into AI, believing the deal is antithetical to the trendy studio’s creative-first marketing.
From Salon ● Jun. 23, 2026
It was personalized, Milly Johnson scrawled in a trendy pink-colored font at the top, and it took Grace a beat before realizing who Milly Johnson even was.
From "Far from the Tree" by Robin Benway
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
Could Hackney's hipster-baiter ever concede that east London's trendies might, in the words of one n+1 contributor, remind us of "youth and daring and style, that we don't have any more or perhaps never did?"
From The Guardian ● Oct. 14, 2010
Yet Marisa seems to sense that life with the trendies, where role playing is de rigueur, has locked her into an outgrown character.
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 Sterling, Bruce
America’s new social obsession, mahjong’s become younger, cooler, trendier, and bigger postpandemic—though not without debate over commercialization and cultural appropriation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
It was popular for decades and produced the country's first musical superstars, but has more recently struggled to compete with newer, trendier sounds, particularly with the global rise of K-pop.
From BBC ● Feb. 21, 2026
Plus, less-hyped or up-and-coming neighborhoods often offer apartments with more space and similar amenities, without the premium price tag of trendier areas.
From Salon ● May 25, 2025
The trendier speaker-circumvention method under discussion these days is “defeating the previous question.”
From Slate ● Feb. 21, 2024
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
For those who don’t necessarily care about Camus but seek an introductory look at how Existentialism came to be one of the 20th century’s trendiest outlooks, “The Stranger” is equally commendable.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 2, 2026
But because the movie stars one of your favorite actors, and because it’s distributed by one of the hottest, trendiest distribution companies, you choose to see it anyway.
From Salon ● Apr. 13, 2025
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
On opening night, everyday movie fans participated in step-and-repeats on the trendiest red — well, pink — carpet of the year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 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
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