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/ˌaʊtmˈoʊdəd/ /ˌaʊtmˈoʊdɪd/ Listen

adjective

outmoded adj.

Same as old-fashioned, a., 3.

Synonyms: antique, demode, old-fashioned (3), old-hat(predicate), out-of-date, out of fashion(predicate), out of style(predicate), passe, passee.

Unacceptable because it is inferior to current standards, procedures, or technology.

Synonyms: obsolete, outdated, out-of-date, superannuated, old-fashioned (2).

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Etymology of 'Outmoded'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Outmoded" Quotes from Famous Books

... general assessment: inadequate, outmoded, poor service outside Chisinau, some effort to modernize is under way domestic: new subscribers face long wait for service; mobile cellular telephone service being introduced international: service through Romania and Russia via landline; satellite earth stations ...

— The 2002 CIA World Factbook • US Government

... inadequate, outmoded, poor service outside Chisinau, some effort to modernize is under way domestic: new subscribers face long wait for service; mobile cellular telephone service being introduced international: service through Romania and Russia via landline; satellite earth stations ...

— The 2002 CIA World Factbook • US Government

... the Mousmes of Japan, as playthings, and insisted on one thing only—that they must be pretty. A Frenchman, despite his unusual intellectual power, he was not wholly emancipated from the la petite femme tradition, which will never be outmoded in Paris while Paris hums with life, and, therefore, when he was informed that he was to take in to dinner the tall, solidly built, big-waisted, rugged-faced woman, whom he had been observing from a distance ever since he came into the drawing-room, he felt that he was being ...

— The Call of the Blood • Robert Smythe Hichens

... sage surveyed me thoughtfully. "India too is young. The ancient RISHIS {FN5-3} laid down ineradicable patterns of spiritual living. Their hoary dictums suffice for this day and land. Not outmoded, not unsophisticated against the guiles of materialism, the disciplinary precepts mold India still. By millenniums-more than embarrassed scholars care to compute!-the skeptic Time has validated Vedic worth. Take it ...

— Autobiography of a YOGI • Paramhansa Yogananda

... supporting role. That is The Sky Pirate (1909), which is an adventure story laid in the year 1936. Its plot revolves around an abduction for ransom in a period which is visualized as rampant with piracy because of the general adoption of air transportation. As usual, fact has outmoded prophecy, for long before 1936 airplane speeds exceeded the 140 miles per hour Serviss predicted. We still need, though, his invention which enables badly damaged aircraft to drift slowly down to a ...

— Edison's Conquest of Mars • Garrett Putnam Serviss