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newfangled

Adjective
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

newfangled: A mildly disparaging adjective for something newly invented or excessively modern, suggesting skepticism toward novelty and a preference for tradition and established ways.

Detailed Definition
Newfangled is an older, mildly comic adjective for something fashionable or recently introduced. It often suggests that the speaker thinks the new thing is unnecessary or fussy, which fits the poem’s joke about Auto-Tune.
Example
Example in poetry:
“There’s a newfangled gadget we simply must try” uses the adjective skeptically; “Newfangled fashions fluttered through the square” echoes older satiric usage; Shakespeare’s “newfangled ill” associates novelty with restless change; “Her newfangled app translates birdsong into sales” updates the word’s ironic tone.
Additional Notes
In “a newfangled gadget,” the adjective is an old-fashioned word that modern readers may not use often.; Found in the poem, Love is Deaf: The Ballad of Barney McBard by Richard
Also Known As
modern innovative cutting-edge contemporary
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