old-fashioned

English

Alternative forms

• old fashioned

Etymology

old + fashioned

Adjective

old-fashioned (comparative more old-fashioned, superlative most old-fashioned)

1. Of a thing, outdated or no longer in vogue.

   My bike is old-fashioned but it gets me around.

2. Of a person, preferring the customs of earlier times.

   You can’t stay the night, because my parents are a bit old-fashioned.

Usage notes

• Said of all kinds of things including words, houses, places, chimneys, character traits, cookware, education, music, or style.

Translations

outdated or no longer in vogue

• Burmese: ရှေး (my) (she:)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 過時 (cmn), 过时 (cmn) (guòshí), 古板 (cmn) (gǔbǎn)

• Danish: gammeldags (da)
• Dutch: ouderwets (nl)
• Estonian: moest läinud (et)
• Finnish: vanhanaikainen (fi)
• French: démodé (fr) m, vieilli (fr), à l'ancienne (fr)
• German: altmodisch (de)
• Greek: παλιομοδίτικος (el) (paliomoditikos)
• Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: ódivatú (hu), divatjamúlt (hu)
• Icelandic: gamaldags (indeclinable)
• Italian: antiquato (it), sorpassato (it), fuori moda (it)

• Japanese: 昔風 (ja) (むかしふう, mukashi-fū), 旧弊 (ja) (きゅうへい, kyūhei), (trite) 古臭い (ja) (ふるくさい, furu-kusai)
• Jèrriais: dêmodé
• Luxembourgish: almoudesch (lb)
• Macedonian: старомоден (mk) (staromóden) m
• Malay: fesyen lama (ms), jenis lama (ms)
• Portuguese: démodé (pt)
• Romanian: demodat (ro) m and n, demodată (ro) f, vechi-modic (ro) m and n, învechit (ro) m and n
• Russian: старомодный (ru) (staromódnyj), устаревший (ru) (ustarévšij)
• Scottish Gaelic: seann-nòsach (gd), seann-fhasanta (gd)
• Spanish: pasado de moda (es), anticuado (es)
• Swedish: gammalmodig (sv), gammaldags (sv)
• Thai: คร่ำครึ (th) (krâm kréu), ล้าสมัย (th) (láa sàmăi)
• Turkish: eski moda (tr), modası geçmiş (tr)

preferring the customs of earlier times

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 古板 (cmn) (gǔbǎn) (traditional Chinese variant: 古闆 (cmn))

• Czech: staromódní (cs) m
• Danish: gammeldags (da)
• Dutch: ouderwets (nl)
• Estonian: vanamoodne (et)
• Finnish: vanhanaikainen (fi)
• French: vieux jeu (fr), de la vieille école (fr)
• German: altmodisch (de)
• Greek: παλιομοδίτης (el) (paliomoditis) m
• Hebrew: please add this translation if you can

• Hungarian: régimódi (hu)
• Icelandic: gamaldags (indeclinable)
• Italian: vecchio stile (it)
• Japanese: 旧弊 (ja) (きゅうへい, kyūhei)
• Macedonian: старомоден (mk) (staromóden) m
• Malay: fesyen lama (ms), jenis lama (ms)
• Polish: staromodny (pl)
• Russian: старомодный (ru) (staromódnyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: seann-nòsach (gd)
• Swedish: gammalmodig (sv)
• Turkish: eski kafalı (tr)

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Translations to be checked

• Spanish: pasado de moda (es)

• Thai: คร่ำครึ (th) (krâm kréu), ล้าสมัย (th) (láa sàmăi)

Noun

Wikipedia old-fashioned (plural old-fashioneds)

1. A whiskey-based cocktail