old-fashioned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /oʊldˈfæʃənd/
ipa: /əʊldˈfæʃənd/
Forms: form: more old-fashioned
form: older-fashioned
form: most old-fashioned
form: oldest-fashioned
form: old fashioned
Etymology: From old + fashioned. The cocktail (which goes back to at least the early 1800s) got its name in the late 1800s as more complicated cocktails became common and those who preferred simpler drinks began asking for old-fashioned cocktails.
Senses: examples: text: My bike is old-fashioned but it gets me around.
text: Miss Menie, we should mention, has a commendable desire to sell her oldest-fashioned articles first; indeed, we believe that something of the sort has always been common among mercers. It is true, that the most conscientious of the trade make a point, in such cases, to say nothing of the fashionableness of the patterns, but in proportion to the care with which they do this, they enlarge on the good qualities of the texture and durability.
ref: 1822 September, “[The Gathering of the West; or, We’re Come to See the King.] Greenock Folk.”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume XII, number LXVIII, Edinburgh: William Blackwood; London: T[homas] Cadell, […], page 309, column 1:
text: She was seated in a low old-fashioned arm-chair, directly below a portrait of herself, that had been taken just before her first visit to London.
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIX, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 320:
text: Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path[…]. It twisted and turned,[…]and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn. And, back of the lawn, was a big, old-fashioned house, with piazzas stretching in front of it, and all blazing with lights.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC, page 18:
text: T. S. Eliot suspects Mr. Pound’s philosophy of being antiquated. W. C. Williams finds his “versification still patterned after classic metres”; and, apropos of ‘feminolatry,’ is not the view of woman expressed by the Cantos older-fashioned than that of Siam and Abyssinia? knowledge of the femaleness of “chaos”, of the “octopus”, of “Our mulberry leaf, woman,” appertaining more to the Grand Turk than to a Roger Ascham?
ref: 1931 October, Marianne Moore, “[Reviews] The Cantos: A Draft of XXX Cantos, by Ezra Pound. Hours Press, Paris.”, in Harriet Monroe, editor, Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, volume XXXIX, number I, Chicago, Ill., page 44:
text: Walter Wren & Co. were a china clay firm right enough, but much smaller and older-fashioned than CCC.
ref: 2012, Robert Goddard, Fault Line, London: Bantam Press, →ISBN, page 13:
synonyms: word: dated
word: oldfangled
word: outdated
word: anachronistic
word: antediluvial
word: antediluvian
word: antiquated
word: antique
word: archaic
word: backward
word: backwards
word: behind the times
word: cobwebbed
word: cobwebby
word: dated
word: defunct
word: discontinued
word: disused
word: dootsie
word: elderly
word: extinct
word: expired
word: fossilized
word: Havishamesque
word: idle
word: Miss Havishamesque
word: obsolete
word: old
word: oldfangled
word: old-fashioned
word: old school
word: outdated
word: outmoded
word: out of date
word: out of fashion
word: outworn
word: parachronistic
word: passé
word: superannuated
word: superseded
word: unemployed
word: unoccupied
word: venerable
word: workless
word: basic
word: cheugy
word: cringe
word: cringey
word: cringeworthy
word: dated
word: démodé
word: fossilized
word: inelegant
word: last year
word: normie
word: old
word: old-fashioned
word: old-hat
word: oldfangled
word: ossified
word: out
word: out of date
word: out of fashion
word: out of touch
word: outdated
word: outmoded
word: passé
word: rinky-dink
word: tacky
word: unchic
word: uncool
word: unfashionable
word: unhip
word: unpopular
word: unstylish
word: untrendy
glosses: Of an object, outdated or no longer in vogue.
examples: text: You can’t stay the night, because my parents are a bit old-fashioned.
text: The people of Marken may almost be regarded as the oldest-fashioned in the world. They adhere to the same picturesque costume as was worn by their ancestors three hundred years ago, and their houses are built in the same primitive style as in those days.
ref: 1879, Albert Hastings Markham, “The Dutch Flag in the Northern Seas”, in Donald Macleod, editor, Good Words for 1879, London: Isbister and Company, […], part I, page 95, column 2:
text: It neither aims at, nor does it admit of, the gorgeousness of its predecessor; mainly, or at least partly, because it does not aim at or admit of that predecessor’s variety of rhythm. / In the respect with which alone we have to do, Steele is merely a more careless Addison, and Arbuthnot, in this as in others, is almost inseparable from Swift. Atterbury is slightly older-fashioned than the others, and nearer the Dryden group.
ref: 1912, George Saintsbury, “Augustan Prose”, in A History of English Prose Rhythm, London: Macmillan and Co., […], page 252:
glosses: Of a person, preferring the customs of earlier times and the old-style ways.
Hypernyms: fashioned
Derived terms: old fashioned glass
old-fashioned look
old-fashionedly
old-fashionedness