trendy
modern and influenced by the most recent fashions or ideas
trendy clothes
Oxford Essential Dictionary
trendy
adjective (trendier, trendiest) (informal)
fashionable:
a trendy new bar
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
trendy
I. trend‧y1 /ˈtrendi/ BrE AmE adjective (comparative trendier, superlative trendiest)
influenced by the most fashionable styles and ideas:
a trendy Bay Area restaurant
—trendiness noun [uncountable]
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THESAURUS
▪ fashionable popular at a particular time: fashionable clothes | It was fashionable to have red hair. | His theories were fashionable in the 1980s.
▪ trendy informal modern and fashionable – often used in a slightly disapproving or joking way: a trendy tie | a trendy restaurant | The area has become very trendy and a lot of artists live there.
▪ stylish adjective fashionable and well-designed in an attractive way: She was wearing a stylish two-piece suit. | The furniture looked very stylish and modern.
▪ cool adjective informal fashionable – used especially when you think someone or something looks good: Michael looked very cool in his dark jacket and sunglasses. | a cool shirt
▪ happening [only before noun] informal adjective a happening place is fashionable and lively: London has always been a happening place.
▪ be in fashion verb phrase to be fashionable at a particular time: The Sixties look is back in fashion.
▪ in adjective informal fashionable at a particular time. In is not used before a noun, except in the phrases below: Pale colours are in. | New York was the in place to be. | Yoga has become the in thing to do.
Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
trendy
trendy [trendy trendies] adjective, noun [ˈtrendi] [ˈtrendi]
adjective (trend·ier, trendi·est)(informal)
very fashionable
• trendy clothes
Example Bank:
• People are buying them just to be trendy.
• She wasn't a trendy sort of person.
• These views were typical of trendy academics in the 1960s.
Derived Words: trendily ▪ trendiness
noun (pl. trendies)(BrE, informal, usually disapproving) a trendy person
• young trendies from art college
Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary - 4th Edition
trendy / ˈtren.di / adjective informal
C1 modern and influenced by the most recent fashions or ideas:
trendy clothes
a trendy nightclub
He writes for some trendy magazine for the under-30s.
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s English Dictionary
trendy
[tre_ndi]
trendier, trendiest, trendies
1) ADJ-GRADED If you say that something or someone is trendy, you mean that they are very fashionable and modern. [INFORMAL]
...a trendy London night club.
...middle-class kids in trendy clothes.
...women who want to look trendy.
N-COUNT
A trendy is someone who is trendy. ...a lively and informal city-based television network dedicated to the urban trendy.
2) ADJ-GRADED: usu ADJ n (disapproval) If you describe someone who follows new ideas as trendy, you disapprove of them because they are more interested in being fashionable than in thinking seriously about these ideas. [INFORMAL]
Trendy teachers are denying children the opportunity to study classic texts.
N-COUNT
A trendy is someone who is trendy. ...another example of what happens when you get a few trendies in power.
Merriam-Webster's Advanced Learner's Dictionary
1trendy /ˈtrɛndi/ adj trend·i·er; -est [also more ~; most ~]
1 sometimes disapproving : currently popular or fashionable
• trendy fashions/clothes/restaurants
2 often disapproving : liking or tending to like whatever is currently popular or fashionable : influenced by trends
• a group of trendy young professionals
- trend·i·ly /ˈtrɛndəli/ adv
• She dresses very trendily.
- trend·i·ness /ˈtrɛndinəs/ noun [noncount]
• He tries to avoid trendiness when he buys new clothes.
