'After a fashion' definitions:
Definition of 'after a fashion'
From: WordNet
adverb
To some extent; not very well; "he speaks French after a fashion"
Definition of 'After a fashion'
From: GCIDE
- Fashion \Fash"ion\, n. [OE. fasoun, facioun, shape, manner, F. facon, orig., a making, fr. L. factio a making, fr. facere to make. See Fact, Feat, and cf. Faction.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. The make or form of anything; the style, shape, appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model; as, the fashion of the ark, of a coat, of a house, of an altar, etc.; workmanship; execution. [1913 Webster]
- The fashion of his countenance was altered. --Luke ix. 29. [1913 Webster]
- I do not like the fashion of your garments. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The prevailing mode or style, especially of dress; custom or conventional usage in respect of dress, behavior, etiquette, etc.; particularly, the mode or style usual among persons of good breeding; as, to dress, dance, sing, ride, etc., in the fashion. [1913 Webster]
- The innocent diversions in fashion. --Locke. [1913 Webster]
- As now existing, fashion is a form of social regulation analogous to constitutional government as a form of political regulation. --H. Spencer. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Polite, fashionable, or genteel life; social position; good breeding; as, men of fashion. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Mode of action; method of conduct; manner; custom; sort; way. "After his sour fashion." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- After a fashion, to a certain extent; of a sort; sort of.
- Fashion piece (Naut.), one of the timbers which terminate the transom, and define the shape of the stern.
- Fashion plate, a pictorial design showing the prevailing style or a new style of dress. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'after a fashion'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- appreciably,
- at any rate,
- at best,
- at least,
- at most,
- at the least,
- at the most,
- at the outside,
- at worst,
- by some means,
- comparatively,
- detectably,
- fairly,
- in a manner,
- in a way,
- in part,
- in some measure,
- in some way,
- incompletely,
- leastwise,
- merely,
- mildly,
- moderately,
- modestly,
- no matter how,
- not comprehensively,
- not exhaustively,
- only,
- part,
- partially,
- partly,
- pro tanto,
- purely,
- relatively,
- simply,
- so far,
- somehow,
- somehow or other,
- someway,
- somewhat,
- thus far,
- to a degree,
- to some degree,
- tolerably,
- visibly
Words containing 'After a fashion'
- Fashion,
- Fashionable,
- Fashionableness,
- Fashionably,
- Fashioned,
- Fashioner,
- Fashioning,
- Fashion piece,
- Fashion plate,
- Fashioning needle,
- Gammoning fashion,
- To set the fashion,
- fashion arbiter,
- fashion business,
- fashion consultant,
- fashion designer,
- fashion industry,
- fashion model,
- fully fashioned,
- high fashion,
- old fashioned,
- Fashion-monger,
- Fashion-mongering,
- full-fashioned,
- old-fashioned,
- old-fashioned outmoded,
- fogyish mossgrown mossy stick-in-the-mudprenominal stodgy old-fashioned