outdated
/aʊtˈdeɪtɪd
/adjective
Out of date; obsolete: outdated equipment...
- So here we stand, out in the pasture in very much the same way as the outdated and obsolete horse.
- It was rundown, with outdated equipment and a half-empty order book.
- Yet the easiest way to describe it is as a pop album recorded on hopelessly outdated equipment.
Synonyms
old-fashioned, out of date, outmoded, out of fashion, unfashionable, out of style, dated, out, outworn, old, former, musty, old-time, old-world, behind the times, behindhand, past, bygone, archaic, obsolescent, obsolete, ancient, antiquated, superannuated, defunct, medieval, prehistoric, antediluvian, old-fogeyish, old-fangled, backward-looking, quaint, anachronistic, crusted, feudal, fusty, moth-eaten, olde worlde;
French passé, démodé, vieux jeu
informal old hat, square, not with it, out of the ark, creaky, clunky, mouldy
North American informal horse-and-buggy, rinky-dink, mossy
archaic square-toed
Derivatives
outdate
- When so defined, the source cannot differ from the sum of sink activities, largely outdating the source- or sink-limitation concepts.
- It is completely different and neither one outdates or outperforms the other.
- Hair root microsurgery is a state of the art method that outdates older techniques.
outdatedness
- Then there are songs that simply explode with outdatedness.
- Identifying California with the future, their novels predict their own outdatedness; they become boats against the current, condemned to search for living tradition in the vaults and graveyards of the British past.
- Given the wealth of new insights that economic historians of the region have offered over the past ten years, this suggests a volume that teeters on the verge of outdatedness at publication.