newfangled
adjective
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Newfangled is actually a pretty old word: it dates all the way back to the 15th century, having developed from the even older adjective newfangle. In its earliest documented uses, newfangled described a person who was fond of new fashions, ideas, etc. In current usage, the word typically—and often deprecatingly—describes anything that is new, hip, hot, or happening, such as cutting-edge technology or popular slang. Other times it is used with irony for something, such as rock music, that might have been new at one time but is hardly new anymore.
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Boone Ashworth, WIRED, 29 Aug. 2024
In Megalopolis, Francis Ford Coppola’s polarizing box office flop, a futuristic development is the wild utopic imagining of Adam Driver’s protagonist Cesar Catilina, a controversial urbanist who’s invented a newfangled building material called Megalon.
—Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Oct. 2024
Meanwhile, some members of the public feared riding by themselves in the newfangled contraptions and demanded operators.
—Jenn Brice, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2024
So, how do these newfangled tracking devices actually work?
—Charlie Hobbs, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Sep. 2024
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“Newfangled.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/newfangled. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.
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