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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Meanwhile, trendy quantitative trading strategies have attracted growing interest from major asset allocators and institutions.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 30, 2026
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
ME: You’ve stated before that you don’t design to be trendy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
My bedroom was decked out in white wicker furniture and a trendy daybed.
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
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
Whether magic Telluride can avoid creating a similar fate in the face of a trendies invasion is still very much up in the for now still clear mountain air.
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
The upper limit for most of the items for Scenario, Walmart’s new brand of women’s clothing, bags and other accessories as it seeks to appeal to younger, trendier shoppers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
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
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
Shanghai was at the heart of it - bigger, shinier and trendier than any other Chinese city.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 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
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
As tourists celebrate the high-end vintage shops, the evocative street art and chic eateries of Roma Norte, one of Mexico City’s trendiest neighborhoods, Mariana de Miguel can’t help but resent its overcrowded nature.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2024
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
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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