Synonyms for newfangled

Grammar : Adj

Spell : noo-fang-guh ld, -fang-, nyoo-

Phonetic Transcription : ˈnuˈfæŋ gəld, -ˌfæŋ-, ˈnyu-

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Définition of newfangled

Origin : late 15c., "addicted to novelty," literally "ready to grasp at all new things," from adj. newefangel "fond of novelty" (late 14c.), from new + -fangel "inclined to take," from root of Old English fon "to capture" (see fang). Sense of "lately come into fashion" first recorded 1530s.

adj quite recent

Example sentences :

But theer's no room i' the world for th' old-fangled an' the newfangled.
Extract from : « Aunt Rachel » by David Christie Murray

What's the matter with these modern mothers, with their newfangled methods and their efficiency and all?
Extract from : « Gigolo » by Edna Ferber

They were old-fashioned in their ideas, and did not like newfangled notions.
Extract from : « For Fortune and Glory » by Lewis Hough

"Persons of the newfangled kind that believe in nothing," he said.
Extract from : « The Wizard's Son, Vol. 1(of 3) » by Margaret Oliphant

I couldn't learn the tricks of one of these newfangled rifles.
Extract from : « Strange Stories of the Great Valley » by Abbie Johnston Grosvenor

To smoke in the street was vulgar; and to smoke the newfangled cigar was worse.
Extract from : « The Social History of Smoking » by G. L. Apperson

He was cased all in that newfangled armour which we call lizard-mail.
Extract from : « Puck of Pook's Hill » by Rudyard Kipling

What were we miserable wretches to do, shut up in this newfangled labyrinth.
Extract from : « The Satyricon, Complete » by Petronius Arbiter

Mr. Atkins was getting on in years and called everything introduced in the last thirty years "newfangled."
Extract from : « In the Cards » by Alan Cogan

She knew not what opinions (though she might judge from my newfangled Lord Chatham) were in fashion in England.
Extract from : « The Virginians » by William Makepeace Thackeray

Antonyms for newfangled

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