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newfangled
[ noo-fang-guhld, -fang-, nyoo- ]
adjective
- of a new kind or fashion:
newfangled ideas.
- fond of or given to novelty.
newfangled
/ ˈnjuːˈfæŋɡəld /
adjective
- newly come into existence or fashion, esp excessively modern
- rare.excessively fond of new ideas, fashions, etc
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Derived Forms
- ˈnewˈfangledness, noun
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Other Words From
- newfangled·ness noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of newfangled1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of newfangled1
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Example Sentences
Ali is but the latest victim of a newfangled version of the “no platform” phenomenon.
The uniform, and this newfangled authoritative role, gives her a sense of purpose.
All I know is we won't be the ones coming up with the newfangled storytelling systems.
At times, those years feel very far away; Branch once muses on a newfangled “cellular” phone in 1994.
I suspect Cheney would frown on such newfangled appellations: so weak, so flimsy, so post-Watergate!
With the coming in of hymn books and other newfangled things the good old custom of "lining the hymn" has disappeared.
I couldn't learn the tricks of one of these newfangled rifles.
She has no newfangled notions about the animal character of motherhood, nor about the degrading character of housekeeping.
Newfangled notions were held in but low estimation among the miners of Stokebridge.
But the miners were bitterly opposed to anything "newfangled," and the owners were careless.
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