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Instagrammable
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instagrammable
English
2020 October 6
thumb|350px|A girl takes an Instagrammable photograph with her smartphone at a Japanese cafe in 2019.
Alternative forms
en Instagramable Instagram-able
Etymology
en Instaworthy :af Instagram<id:IG> -able<id:able to>
From en Instagram able suffix meaning ‘relevant or suitable to’.adj
Pronunciation
en /ˈɪnstəˌɡræməb(ə)l/ RP
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-Instagrammable.wav RP
en /ˈɪnstəˌɡræməbəl/ GA
en En-us-Instagrammable.ogg US
en In sta gram ma ble
Adjective
en informal Visually attractive or interesting such that it lends itself to being photographed and posted on social media (specifically on Instagram); photogenic. from early 21st c.
en Instaworthy 'grammable
en Rachel Ramirez The Ultimate Friendsgiving Guide The Beacon https://web.archive.org/web/20170227053448/http://www.upbeacon.com/article/2016/11/the-ultimate-friendsgiving-guide 27 February 2017 Portland, Or. w:University of Portland 23 November 2016 44624788 A centerpiece such as a basket of fruits or a pumpkin vase of flowers would make the dining table look beautiful and Instagramable.
en Major Hospitality Powerhouses Reveal Key Trends at Annual Boutique Hotel Investment Conference (BLLA) 2017 Hery Sudrajat Hotelier Indonesia 30th [Indonesia?] Hoticom Media International 2017 XIV 31 https://books.google.com/books?id=VyhSDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA31 2 2088-4060 Creating instagrammable moments for business through design is paramount in order to stay relevant. [...] [Mark] Birnbaum uses the ‘instagrammable cake’ sold at Catch, as an example of how “items exist solely for the reason of social sharing”.
en Kate Merrick #Blessed And Still She Laughs: Defiant Joy in the Depths of Suffering Nashville, Tenn. Nelson Books, Thomas Nelson 2017 33 https://books.google.com/books?id=hkXdDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA33 978-0-7180-9281-8 My adult life, and particularly my married life, was quite "blessed" for the first eleven years. It was very pretty, very Instagrammable.
en Harriet Baskas Singapore: ‘World’s best airport’ opens sparkling Instagram-worthy new terminal w:USA Today https://web.archive.org/web/20200305184440/https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/flights/todayinthesky/2017/11/03/instagramable-worlds-best-airport-opens-sparkling-new-terminal-singapore/828141001/ 5 March 2020 McLean, Va. Gannett Co. 5 November 2017 0734-7456 658972642 And then there are the chairs. Whimsical, colorful, diverse and tested for both comfort and durability, the wide array of unusual seating options at Changi's T4 are designed to be both inviting and Instagramable.
en Emily Phillips Cycle 21 https://books.google.com/books?id=nutrDgAAQBAJ&pg=PT92 Trying London w:Hodder & Stoughton 2018 978-1-4736-6380-0 Burgers are a great source of protein (ignore the grease), as are eggs (which must go some way to enhancing my eggs), plus I had a dollop of guacamole, which is basically unsullied avocado (healthy and Instagrammable).
en Alfred Tong Introduction https://books.google.com/books?id=VXRZDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT6 The Thinking Man's Guide to Life: How to Network, De-stress, Make Friends and Everything in-between London Hardie Grant Books 2018 978-1-78488-155-9 Now, if you're the type of person who quietly agonises over what people might think of your carefully curated, Instagrammable bookshelf, don't worry!
en Kaya Yurieff Restaurants Rise to Fame over Instagramable Food w:CNN Business https://web.archive.org/web/20191112022129/https://edition.cnn.com/2018/10/10/tech/instagram-restaurant-industry/index.html 12 November 2019 10 October 2018 Retailers are also taking a page out of this playbook by creating shopping experiences with Instagramable moments, including photo booths, branded mirrors and neon signs.
en w:Richard Flanagan Foreword Ben Quilty [Melbourne, Vic.] Lantern, Penguin Books 2019 23 https://books.google.com/books?id=WlWLDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA23 978-0-14-379594-0 [Ben Quilty's] art is characterised not by a heavy morbidity but an ease and facility, a vitality that has seen figurative painting remain important in Australia in a period when it was dismissed as washed-up and conservative while conceptual and Instagrammable installation art had become de rigueur; [...]
en Janelle Brown 13 Pretty Things New York, N.Y. w:Random House 2020 169 https://books.google.com/books?id=9JyyDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA169 978-0-525-47912-3 I'd hired a pair of social media assistants whose primary job was to identify Instagram-able outfits and locales, before the influence-aspiring hordes found their way to them and turned them into middle-America clichés.
en Daniel Priestley Sales Follow-through: Proactively Follow Up with Prospects to Maximise the Effectiveness of Your Campaign Oversubscribed: How to Get People Lining Up to Do Business with You 2nd Chichester, West Sussex John Wiley & Sons 2020 part II (The Campaign-driven Enterprise Method: Turning Principles into Strategy) 227 https://books.google.com/books?id=EqrSDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA227 978-0-85708-825-3 This isn't an accident; everything about this cafe is designed to be Instagram-able.
en Sarah Frier The Pursuit of the Insta-worthy No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram New York, N.Y. w:Simon & Schuster April 2020 168 https://books.google.com/books?id=mcjcDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA168 978-1-9821-2680-3 [Edward] Barnieh watched new cafes all around the world adopt aesthetics that were popular on Instagram. [...] The public was coming to a consensus about what kinds of designs were Instagrammable.
Derived terms
en Instagrammability
Translations
visually attractive or interesting such that it lends itself to being photographed and posted on social media photogenic
Finnish: fi instagrammattava
French: fr instagrammable
Indonesian: id Instagramable
Italian: it instagrammabile m f
Japanese: ja インスタ映えする インスタばえする, Insutabae suru
Portuguese: pt instagramável
Romanian: ro instagramabil m n
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