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adjective

outmoded adj.

Same as old-fashioned, a., 3.

Synonyms: antique, demode, old-fashioned (3), old-hat(predicate), out-of-date, out of fashion(predicate), out of style(predicate), passe, passee.

Unacceptable because it is inferior to current standards, procedures, or technology.

Synonyms: obsolete, outdated, out-of-date, superannuated, old-fashioned (2).

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Etymology of 'Outmoded'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Outmoded" Quotes from Famous Books

... business executive snatched a moment from a busy day to indulge in a sentimental flight of fancy. He had read once of curious old-time beings called knights, who had undertaken to fight and slay fire-eating things called dragons for the sake of an almost outmoded emotion referred to as love. It occurred to him that this brusque man of action might be compared to just such a being. He was undertaking to slay a dragon and win a castle ...

— The Planetoid of Peril • Paul Ernst

... breath, compressed his lips, and then said, in a lower, somewhat calmer tone, "Know what she'll do? That baby will hang in the air just like your aircar, there—and without benefit of those outmoded, ...

— By Proxy • Gordon Randall Garrett

... only retain all they ever knew of science, but they can develop, even as brains in bodies can develop. Their knowledge does not become outmoded, if they are kept informed of the latest currents of scientific thought. From old knowledge and new they build their structures of logic once my command sets them on. Wills of ...

— The Affair of the Brains • Anthony Gilmore

... Mexico has a free market economy with a mixture of modern and outmoded industry and agriculture, increasingly dominated by the private sector. The Mexican economy enters 1997 in the midst of an economic recovery that began to pick up steam in mid-1996. After plummeting more than 6% in 1995 in the aftermath of the peso crisis, economic activity ...

— The 1997 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

Words linked to "Outmoded" : antique, old-hat, old-fashioned, demode