outmoded
/aʊtˈməʊdɪd
/adjective
Old-fashioned: an outmoded Victorian building...
- Isn't it time to declare all such vessels outmoded, obsolete and a danger to peace?
- My only cavil is that I would have liked to see her in a part which gave her greater scope to display her abilities, rather than in this outdated and outmoded piece.
- Costumes are cultural repositories; they are antiquated, outmoded images of a nostalgised past.
Synonyms
out of date, old-fashioned, outdated, out of fashion, outworn, dated, behind the times, ancient, archaic, antiquated, obsolescent, dead, obsolete, disused, defunct, abandoned, tired, exhausted, stale, hackneyed, superannuated;
French passé
informal old hat, out of the ark
Derivatives
outmodedness
- What's incredibly useful in these photographs now is not just their attention to the medium of photography, but their attention to this medium in such a space of extreme outmodedness.
- It is precisely this defiant sense of outmodedness that, ironically, gives the film and its characters such an edge.
Rhymes
- unarguably
- unarm
- unarmed
- unarmed combat
- unarranged
- unarticulated
- unartistic
- unartistically
- unary
- unascertainable
- unascertained
- unashamed
- unashamedly
- unashamedness
- unasked
- unaspirated
- unassailability
- unassailable
- unassailableness
- unassailably
- unassertive
- unassertively
- unassertiveness
- unassignable
- unassigned