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adjective

out-of-date adj.

Same as old-fashioned, a., 2.

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

Unacceptable because it is inferior to current standards, procedures, or technology; outmoded (2); noncurrent. Antonym: current.

Synonyms: obsolete, outmoded (2), superannuated.

No longer valid.

Synonyms: back(prenominal), outdated.

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Etymology of 'Out-of-date'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Out-of-date" Quotes from Famous Books

... . hot air!" The very idea of a gringo talking to him about nobility! . . . He had left Europe when very young in order to cast in his lot with the revolting democracies of America, and although nobility now seemed to him something out-of-date and incomprehensible, still he stoutly maintained that the only true nobility was that of his own country. He would yield first place to the gringoes for the invention of machinery and ships, and for breeding priceless animals, but all the Counts and Marquises of Gringo-land appeared to him ...

— The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse • Vicente Blasco Ibanez

... this arsenal of murderous weapons and out-of-date instruments, is strangely mingled a collection of very different objects, being small glass-lidded boxes, full of rosaries, chaplets, medals, AGNUS DEI, holy water bottles, framed pictures of saints, etc., not to forget a goodly number of those chapbooks, struck off in Friburg on ...

— The Wandering Jew, Complete • Eugene Sue

... happened to be relics of former Saint Legers, or for some other equally sufficient reason, were deemed too valuable to be disposed of. The contents of this chamber could scarcely have proved uninteresting, even to a stranger, for in addition to several handsome pieces of out-of-date furniture—discarded originally in favour of the more modern, substantial mahogany article, and now permitted to remain in seclusion simply because of the bizarre appearance they would present in conjunction with that same ponderous product of the nineteenth-century cabinet-makers' taste—there ...

— The Cruise of the "Esmeralda" • Harry Collingwood

... Among the other out-of-date customs and silly superstitions that the younger Chunerbutty boasted of having freed himself from, were the respect and regard due to parents—usually deep-rooted in all races of India, and indeed of the East generally. So without any ...

— The Elephant God • Gordon Casserly

... so frequently in these columns urged the want of cheap, well-illustrated, and well-written handbooks to our cathedrals, to take the place of the out-of-date publications of local booksellers, that we are glad to hear that they have been taken in hand by Messrs. George Bell & ...

— Bell's Cathedrals: The Priory Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Great, Smithfield • George Worley

Words linked to "Out-of-date" : superannuated, outdated, noncurrent