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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out-of-date adj.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No longer valid.

Synonyms: back(prenominal), outdated.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Etymology of 'Out-of-date'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"Out-of-date" Quotes from Famous Books

... If you reject out-of-date apparel, you will outgrow present environments and enter into new relations, new enterprises and new loves, which will transform you ...

— 10,000 Dreams Interpreted • Gustavus Hindman Miller

... their idols beneath the iconoclastic hammer. In this general social and intellectual house-cleaning have we consigned virtue to the rubbish heap—or at best relegated it to the garret with the spinning-wheel, hand-loom and other out-of-date trumpery? Time was when a woman branded as a bawd hid her face for shame, or consorted only with her kind; now, if she can but become sufficiently notorious she goes upon the stage, and men take their wives and daughters ...

— Volume 1 of Brann The Iconoclast • William Cowper Brann

Words linked to "Out-of-date" : noncurrent, outdated