newfangled

About 0.12 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective New and often needlessly novel or gratuitously different; recently devised or fashionable, especially when not an improvement.

   newfangled electronic gadgets that cost a lot and do little

2. adjective Fond of novelty.

Similar words

original new disguised fancy-pants newish new-wavish new-look quaint nobby conceited

Often followed by

ideas notions and things idea contraption invention ways technology

Word family

newfangledness newfanglednesses