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old-fashioned
CIDE DICTIONARY
old-fashioned, a.
- Formed according to old or obsolete fashion or pattern; belonging to or characteristic of times past; adhering to old customs, styles, or ideas; as, an old-fashioned dress, girl; old-fashioned wire-rimmed glasses. Addison. [1913 Webster]"This old-fashioned, quaint abode." [1913 Webster]
- Unacceptable or suboptimum because of having been superseded by something more recent; outmoded{2}; out-of-date. [WordNet 1.5]
- Unfashionably out of date; out of style. [WordNet 1.5]
old-fashioned, n.
A cocktail consisting of whiskey, bitters, and sugar, garnished with with fruit slices and often a cherry. [WordNet 1.5]
THESAURUS
old-fashioned
Victorian, abandoned, abjured, aged, ancient, antiquated, antique, archaic, back-number, backward, behind the times, belated, bygone, ceremonious, chivalric, chivalrous, conservative, courtly, crusty, dated, demode, deserted, die-hard, discarded, discontinued, disused, done with, dowdy, fogyish, formal, fuddy-duddy, fusty, gallant, has-been, knightly, moldy, moss-grown, mossy, neanderthal, nonprogressive, not worth saving, obsolescent, obsolete, old, old hat, old-fogyish, old-line, old-time, old-timey, old-world, oldfangled, on the shelf, opposed to change, out, out of fashion, out of season, out of use, out-of-date, outdated, outmoded, outworn, passe, past use, pensioned off, preservative, relinquished, renounced, resigned, retired, right-wing, rococo, standpat, stodgy, styleless, superannuate, superannuated, superseded, ultraconservative, unfashionable, unprogressive, vintage, worn-outROGET THESAURUS
old-fashioned
Oldness
N oldness, age, antiquity, cobwebs of antiquity, maturity, decline, decay, senility, seniority, eldership, primogeniture, archaism, thing of the past, relic of the past, megatherium, Sanskrit, tradition, prescription, custom, immemorial usage, common law, old, ancient, antique, of long standing, time-honored, venerable, elder, eldest, firstborn, prime, primitive, primeval, primigenous, paleolontological, paleontologic, paleoanthropological, paleoanthropic, paleolithic, primordial, primordinate, aboriginal, diluvian, antediluvian, protohistoric, prehistoric, antebellum, colonial, precolumbian, patriarchal, preadamite, paleocrystic, fossil, paleozoolical, paleozoic, preglacial, antemundane, archaic, classic, medieval, Pre-Raphaelite, ancestral, black-letter, immemorial, traditional, prescriptive, customary, whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contr, inveterate, rooted, antiquated, of other times, rococo, of the old school, after-age, obsolete, out of date, out of fashion, out of it, stale, old-fashioned, behind the age, old-world, exploded, gone out, gone by, passe, run out, senile, time worn, crumbling, secondhand, old as the hills, old as Methuselah, old as Adam, old as history, Archeozoic, Proterozoic, Paleozoic, Mesozoic, Cenozoic, Precambrian, Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Mississippian, Pennsylvanian, Permian, Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous, Tertiary, Paleogene, Neocene, Quaternary, Paleocene, Eocene, Oligocene, Miocene, Pliocene, Pleistocene, Recent, since the world was made, since the year one, since the days of Methuselah, vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.For further exploring for "old-fashioned" in Webster Dictionary Online