Fashionable vs Traditional - What's the difference?
fashionable | traditional |
Characteristic of or influenced by a current popular trend or style.
Established or favoured by custom or use; current; prevailing at a particular time.
(archaic) genteel; well-bred
* Shakespeare
A person; a fop
* {{quote-book, year=1860, author=Various, title=Atlantic Monthly, Vol. VI.,October, 1860.--No. XXXVI., chapter=, edition=
, passage=We speculated upon the astonishment that would have seized upon their simple, innocent hearts, had they beheld, instead of us, a bevy of our city fashionables in full bloom. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1891, author=Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), title=What Is Man? and Other Essays, chapter=At the Shrine of St. Wagner, edition=
, passage=In large measure the Metropolitan is a show-case for rich fashionables who are not trained in Wagnerian music and have no reverence for it, but who like to promote art and show their clothes. }}
* {{quote-news, year=1991, date=September 20, author=George Grass, title=Star Show, work=Chicago Reader
, passage=A few, perhaps, have a further purpose; they desire to assist in that circus, to show themselves in the capacity of fashionables , to enchant the yokelry with their splendor. }}
Of or pertaining to tradition; derived from tradition; communicated from ancestors to descendants by word only; transmitted from age to age without writing; as, traditional opinions; traditional customs; traditional expositions of the Scriptures.
Observant of tradition; attached to old customs; old-fashioned.
In lieu of the name of the composer of a piece of music, whose real name is lost in the mists of time.
As adjectives the difference between fashionable and traditional
is that fashionable is characteristic of or influenced by a current popular trend or style while traditional is of or pertaining to tradition; derived from tradition; communicated from ancestors to descendants by word only; transmitted from age to age without writing; as, traditional opinions; traditional customs; traditional expositions of the Scriptures.As a noun fashionable
is a fashionable person; a fop.fashionable
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- a fashionable''' dress; a '''fashionable man
- the fashionable''' philosophy; '''fashionable opinions
- fashionable society
- Time is like a fashionable host / That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand.
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English
Adjective
(en adjective)- I think her traditional values are antiquated .