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fashionable
popular at a particular time:
• fashionable clothes • It was fashionable to have red hair. • His theories were fashionable in the 1980s.
trendy
informal modern and fashionable – often used in a slightly disapproving or joking way:
• a trendy tie • a trendy restaurant • The area has become very trendy and a lot of artists live there.
stylish
adjective fashionable and well-designed in an attractive way:
• She was wearing a stylish two-piece suit. • The furniture looked very stylish and modern.
cool
adjective informal fashionable – used especially when you think someone or something looks good:
• Michael looked very cool in his dark jacket and sunglasses. • a cool shirt
happening
[ only before noun ] informal adjective a happening place is fashionable and lively:
• London has always been a happening place.
be in fashion
verb phrase to be fashionable at a particular time:
• The Sixties look is back in fashion.
in
adjective informal fashionable at a particular time. In is not used before a noun, except in the phrases below:
• Pale colours are in. • New York was the in place to be . • Yoga has become the in thing to do .
Longman-Thesaurus
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adj. VERBS be, look | become | remain | make sth | consider sth ADV. extremely, highly, very Furnishings of this sort are now highly fashionable. | increasingly | quite, rather | currently | newly | suddenly a young and suddenly fashionable actor | no longer PREP. among These cars are no longer fashionable among the young.
Oxford Collocations Dictionary