- 1aB2
/ʌnˈfæʃənəbəl/
Not popular or liked by most people at this time. It is used about ideas, ways of living, places, and things like clothes that people are no longer interested in.
退流行的；不時髦的
比較級 more unfashionable最高級 most unfashionable
核心畫面
Think of a coat at the back of the wardrobe: nothing is wrong with it, but people just don't wear that now. Unfashionable marks where something sits in people's current taste, not whether it is good.
一件掛在衣櫃深處的外套：它沒有壞，尺寸也還合身，只是「現在大家不穿這個了」。unfashionable 講的不是好壞…更多收起
一件掛在衣櫃深處的外套：它沒有壞，尺寸也還合身，只是「現在大家不穿這個了」。unfashionable 講的不是好壞、不是對錯，而是一個時間點上的人氣位置——曾經被喜歡過（或至少沒人覺得奇怪），而此刻風向已經走開。字本身也把這件事說得很清楚：fashion（流行）+ -able（合乎…的）+ un-（不），也就是「不合當下潮流的」。所以它天生帶著一個隱形的時間標記：unfashionable 永遠是相對於「現在」而言，過幾年風向轉回來，同一件事就又時髦了。原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
unfashionableadj
- 1
Not fashionable.
- The fashionable intelligence says so for the comfort of the Parisians, and it knows all fashionable things. To know things otherwise were to be unfashionable.
- 2
obsoleteThat cannot be fashioned; unshapely, distorted.
- I, that am rudely stamp'd, and want love's majesty To strut before a wanton ambling nymph; I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deformed, unfinish'd, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them ...
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。