outmoded
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6.5
- adjective
- /aʊtˈmoʊdɪd/
- The present commonwealth arrangement is an outmoded remnant of the Cold War.
- become outmoded
- outmoded equipment
- outmoded assumptions
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Watch on YouTubeSilent, buoyant, bizarrely benign relics of an outmoded design.
- Silent, buoyant, bizarrely benign relics of an outmoded design.
- So Kamu will tell us, he says the idea of an art detached from its creator is not only outmoded, it is false.
- Contiguous is the adjective that we would more likely use in the present, but it's still kind of a outmoded word.
- The street is being an outmoded special item.
Examples
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The GE refrigerator was the outmoded kind with its compressor on top.
Fiction book (1999) -
Many people consider printed newspapers to be an outmoded form of media in the digital age.
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Perhaps my thinking is outmoded.
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We need books that contain outmoded language and social standards.
Academic text (2015) -
Outmoded solutions to real security problems.
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And I, I have this perhaps somewhat outmoded belief in genius.
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Many enterprises in East Germany are so outmoded that their production is being sharply reduced or closed altogether.
Academic text (1991) -
I think you're operating with some rather quaint and outmoded ideas, Charlie.
Fiction book (1994) -
By this time, it had become congested, polluted, outmoded, and generally shabby.
Academic text (1998) -
Oh, I know how people think of me these days — old-fashioned, outmoded.
Synonyms
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3.6
No longer fashionable or popular
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4.7
Not in style, like clothes or ideas from an earlier time
89
5.8
No longer used or made because something newer replaces it
79
5.0
No longer useful or fashionable because it is old
71
6.2
Not modern and looking old-fashioned
37
4.4
No longer current or in use
31
8.2
Very old and not useful or suitable now
13
3.4
Not popular or stylish now
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3.7
Few people wear it now because it is not in style
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7.5
Old-fashioned and not modern
1
7.9
Not interesting because people use it too often
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9.9
Old and no longer useful because of age
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3.2
To become no longer fresh or interesting
1
6.8
No longer new or fashionable
1
7.1
Old and no longer useful or accepted today
1
6.6
Having an older style that does not follow current fashion
1
8.8
No longer fashionable compared with modern styles
1
7.6
Out of date and not keeping up with current ideas
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9.9
No longer in fashion and looking old
1
7.4
Not changed to use new methods or machines
Old and out of date in ideas, opinions, or ways
Antonyms
How Outdated
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word outmoded is made from out and mode, where mode means 'fashion' or 'way', so something outmoded is 'out of fashion' and no longer useful or stylish.