Synonyms for old-fashioned
old-fash·ioned

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1. old-fashioned

   Antique refers to an ancient, antiquated to a discarded style. Antique is that which is either ancient in fact or ancient in style. The reference is to the style rather than to the age. We can speak of the antique architecture of a church just built. The difference between antiquated and antique is not in the age, for a Puritan style may be scorned as antiquated, while a Roman or Renaissance style may be prized as antique. The antiquated is not so much out of date as out of vogue. Old-fashioned may be used approvingly or contemptuously. In the latter case it becomes a synonym for antiquated; in the good sense it approaches the meaning of antique, but indicates less duration. We call a wide New England fireplace old-fashioned; a coin of the Cæsars, antique. Quaint combines the idea of age with a pleasing oddity; as, a quaint gambrel-roofed house. Antiquated is sometimes used of persons in a sense akin to superannuated. The antiquated person is out of style and out of sympathy with the present generation by reason of age; the superannuated person is incapacitated for present activities by reason of age. Compare OLD.

   Synonyms:
   ancient, antiquated, antique, quaint, superannuated

   Antonyms:
   fashionable, fresh, modern, modish, new, recent, stylish

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1. old fashionedadjective

   a cocktail made of whiskey and bitters and sugar with fruit slices

   Synonyms:
   old fashioned

   Antonyms:
   fashionable, stylish

2. antique, demode, ex, old-fashioned, old-hat(p), outmoded, passe, passeeadjective

   out of fashion

   "a suit of rather antique appearance"; "demode (or outmoded) attire"; "outmoded ideas"

   Antonyms:
   fashionable, stylish

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1. opposed to change

   Submitted by anonymous on February 16, 2020  

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1. old-fashionedadjective

   Synonyms:
   antiquated, archaic, passé, antique, obsolete, fogram, frumpish

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1. List of paraphrases for "old-fashioned":

   outdated, old-school, outmoded, old-style, antiquated, stuffy, obsolete, old, archaic, out-of-date, retro

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1. Hal:

   I used to envy kids who had an old-fashioned Grandpa. Not any more. I've got a new ambition. Now I just want to become a modern-type Grandpa myself-and really start living.

2. Jeremy Wladis:

   I like to see a whole menu, i'm old fashioned.

3. J. G. Ballard:

   The car as we know it is on the way out. To a large extent, I deplore its passing, for as a basically old-fashioned machine, it enshrines a basically old-fashioned idea: freedom. In terms of pollution, noise and human life, the price of that freedom may be high, but perhaps the car, by the very muddle and confusion it causes, may be holding back the remorseless spread of the regimented, electronic society.

4. Alex Jones:

   What you're talking about is old fashioned snake-oil salesmen.

5. John Kasich:

   If I think I can't win, I wouldn't do it because I don't want to burden my family and my friends, i raised money the old fashioned way. I go out and tell people what I think. … I'm optimistic where we are. I'm optimistic on the resources. I'm becoming more and more optimistic on the organization.