outmoded
- adjective
- /aʊtˈmoʊdɪd/
- The present commonwealth arrangement is an outmoded remnant of the Cold War.
- become outmoded
- outmoded equipment
- outmoded assumptions
Silent, 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
Not in style, like clothes or ideas from an earlier time
No longer used or made because something newer replaces it
No longer useful or fashionable because it is old
No longer current or in use
Very old and not useful or suitable now
Not popular or stylish now
No longer fashionable compared with modern styles
Old-fashioned and not modern
Few people wear it now because it is not in style
Not modern and looking old-fashioned
Not interesting because people use it too often
To become no longer fresh or interesting
No longer new or fashionable
Old and no longer useful because of age
No longer fashionable or popular
Out of date and not keeping up with current ideas
No longer in fashion and looking old
Old and no longer useful or accepted today
Old and out of date in ideas, opinions, or ways
Having an older style that does not follow current fashion
Not changed to use new methods or machines
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.