- outdated
- adjective Date: 1616 no longer current ; outmoded • outdatedly adverb • outdatedness noun
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
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outdated — UK US /ˌaʊtˈdeɪtɪd/ adjective ► old or old fashioned and therefore not as good or as useful as something more modern or more recent: outdated equipment/technology »The company is finding it hard to compete because of the outdated equipment it is… … Financial and business terms
Outdated — Out*dat ed, a. Being out of date; antiquated; outmoded; unfashionable. [Obs.] Hammond. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
outdated — I adjective anachronistic, anachronous, ancient, antediluvian, antiquated, antique, archaic, behind the age, behind the times, bygone, dated, defunct, demode, discarded, disused, expired, extinct, fallen into desuetude, fallen into disuse,… … Law dictionary
outdated — (adj.) also out dated, 1610s, grown obsolete, from OUT (Cf. out) + pp. of DATE (Cf. date) (v.1). Out of date is attested from 1620 … Etymology dictionary
outdated — / out of date [adj] old fashioned anachronous, antiquated, antique, archaic, back number*, behind the times*, dated, démodé, dusty, has been*, moth eaten*, musty, not with it*, obsolete, old, old hat*, out, outmoded, out of style*, passé, square … New thesaurus
outdated — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ obsolete … English terms dictionary
outdated — [out΄dāt′id] adj. no longer current or popular; behind the times; antiquated … English World dictionary
outdated — out|dat|ed [ˌautˈdeıtıd] adj 1.) if something is outdated, it is no longer considered useful or effective, because something more modern exists →↑old fashioned ▪ outdated teaching methods ▪ a factory with outdated equipment ▪ His writing style is … Dictionary of contemporary English
outdated — [[t]a͟ʊtde͟ɪtɪd[/t]] ADJ GRADED If you describe something as outdated, you mean that you think it is old fashioned and no longer useful or relevant to modern life. ...outdated and inefficient factories. ...outdated attitudes... Caryl Churchill s… … English dictionary
outdated — adjective 1 unsuitable for the modern world and no longer used much; old fashioned: outdated teaching methods | We reject outdated notions of national sovereignty. 2 a document that is outdated cannot be used because it is no longer effective: an … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
outdated — adjective a) Out of date, old fashioned, antiquated. His outdated word processing software could not read the files I sent. b) Out of date; not the latest one. Your version of the document is outdated. Syn: parachronistic, superse … Wiktionary
