| Main Entry: | fashion |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | adjust, design, create |
Synonyms: |
accommodate, adapt, build, carve, construct, contrive, cook up, cut, devise, dream up, erect, fabricate, fit, forge, form, frame*, knock together, make, manufacture, model, mold, plan, plot, produce, sculpture, shape, suit, tailor, throw together, turn out, work |
| Main Entry: | fashion |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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Adjectives: |
diaphanous, short, two, water, a la mode, acid washed, aesthetic, after one's fancy, allover, artistic, attic, banded, bardocucullated, bonded, bruffed, camisated, capistrate, castorial, chaste, clad, classical, colorfast, cultivated, custom, damasse, designer, dight, dighted, discinct, dizened, dressmaker, elegant, endimanché, euphemistic, figured, fin, frayed, full, habited, in court dress, in evening dress, in good taste, invested, jimpricute, long, missy, motley, nubby, ocreate, off, peekaboo, preshrunk, prewashed, pure, raveled, ready, reversible, sartorial, sericeous, shod, standaway, stonewashed, strapless, subvestimentary, tasteful, tasty, threadbare, to one's mind, to one's taste, tonnish, unisize, vestiary, waterproof, yclad, youthy
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| Concept: | Fashion. |
| Category: | 2. Discriminative Affections |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
fashion, style, ton, bon ton, society; good society, polite society; monde; drawing-room, civilized life, civilization, town, beau monde, high life, court; world; fashionable world, gay world; Vanity Fair; show (ostentation)., manners, breeding (politeness); air, demeanor (appearance); savoir faire; gentlemanliness, gentility, decorum, propriety, bienséance; conventions of society; Mrs. Grundy; punctilio; form, formality; etiquette, point of etiquette; dress., custom; mode, vogue, go; rage (desire); prevailing taste., man of fashion, woman of fashion, man of the world, woman of the world; height of fashion, pink of fashion, star of fashion, glass of fashion, leader of fashion; arbiter elegantiarum (taste); upper ten thousand (nobility); elite (distinction); smart set; the four hundred [U.S.].
-verbs
be fashionable, be the rage; have a run, pass current., follow the fashion, conform to the fashion, fall in with the fashion n.; go with the stream (conform); savoir vivre, savoir faire; keep up appearances, behave oneself., set the fashion, bring in the fashion; give a tone to society, cut a figure in society; keep one's carriage.
-adjectives
fashionable; in fashion; a la mode, comme il faut; admitted in society, admissible in society; presentable; conventional (customary); genteel; well-gred, well mannered, well behaved, well spoken; gentlemanlike, gentlemanly; ladylike; civil, polite (courteous)., polished, refined, thoroughbred, courtly; distingue; unembarrassed, degage; janty, jaunty; dashing,f ast., modish, stylish, chic, trendy, recherche; newfangled (unfamiliar); all the rage, all the go., in court, in full dress, in evening dress; en grande tenue (ornament).
-adverbs
fashionably; for fashion's sake.
-phrases
a la francaise, a la parisienne; a l'anglaise, a l'americaine; autre temps autre mauers; chaque pays a sa guise.
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| Main Entry: | adapt |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | adjust to a different situation or condition |
Synonyms: |
acclimate, accommodate, accustom, alter, change, come around, comply, conform, familiarize, fashion, fit, get act together, get used to, grow used to, habituate, harmonize, make, match, modify, play the game, prepare, qualify, readjust, reconcile, remodel, revise, roll with punches, shape, shape up, square, suit, tailor |
Antonyms: |
disarrange, dislocate, disorder, disturb, unfit |
| Main Entry: | assemble |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | put together |
Synonyms: |
compile, connect, construct, contrive, erect, fabricate, fashion, fit, form, join, make, manufacture, model, mold, piece together, produce, set up, shape, unite, weld |
Antonyms: |
divide, separate, take apart |
| Main Entry: | beat |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | forge |
Synonyms: |
fashion, form, hammer, malleate, model, pound, shape, work |
| Main Entry: | build |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | construct structure |
Synonyms: |
assemble, bring about, carpenter, cast, compile, compose, contrive, engineer, erect, evolve, fabricate, fashion, fit together, forge, form, frame, jerry-build, knock together, make, manufacture, model, prefabricate, produce, put together, put up, raise, rear, reconstruct, sculpture, set up, superstruct, synthesize, throw together, throw up |
| Notes: | billed is having a beak or having been presented a statement of costs or charges, while build is to construct |
Antonyms: |
demolish, destroy, dismantle, knock down, raze, ruin, take down |
| Main Entry: | carve |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cut carefully with sharp instrument |
Synonyms: |
block out, chip, chisel, cleave, dissect, dissever, divide, engrave, etch, fashion, form, grave, hack, hew, incise, indent, insculpt, model, mold, mould, pattern, rough-hew, sculpt, shape, slash, slice, stipple, sunder, tool, trim, whittle |
| Main Entry: | compose |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | be part of construction |
Synonyms: |
be an adjunct, be an element of, be made of, belong to, build, compound, comprise, consist of, constitute, construct, enter in, fashion, form, go into, make, make up, merge in |
Antonyms: |
destroy, disarrange, disperse, ruin, scatter |
| Main Entry: | construct |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | assemble, build |
Synonyms: |
build up, cobble up, compose, compound, constitute, cook up, create, design, dream up, elevate, engineer, envision, erect, establish, fabricate, fashion, forge, form, formulate, found, frame, fudge together, hammer out, hoke up, imagine, invent, make, manufacture, organize, prefab, produce, put out, put together, put up, raise, rear, set up, shape, throw together, throw up, trump up, uprear, whip up |
Antonyms: |
annihilate, break, demolish, destroy, dismantle, raze, ruin |