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outmoded

[out-moh-did]

Origin

adjective

gone out of style; no longer fashionable: outmoded styles.

not acceptable by present standards; no longer usable; obsolete: outmoded dwellings; outmoded teaching methods.

Origin:
see outmode, -ed²

Synonyms
1. unfashionable, dated, old-fashioned.

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verb (used with object)

to cause (something) to go out of style or become obsolete.

verb (used without object)

to go out of style or become obsolete.

Origin:
1900–05; perhaps from the phrase out of mode; compare French démoder

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outmoded (ˌaʊtˈməʊdɪd)

—*adj*
1.	no longer fashionable or widely accepted
2.	no longer practical or usable

out'modedly

—*adv*

out'modedness

—n

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Word Origin & History

outmoded

"no longer in fashion, out of date," 1903, from out + mode (q.v.), perhaps formed on model of Fr. démoder.

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"For them it's out-of-date and outmoded to perform miracles; teaching the people is too like hard work, interpreting the holy scriptures is for schoolmen and praying is a waste of time; to shed tears is weak and womanish, to be needy is degrading; to suffer defeat is a disgrace and hardly fitting for one who scarcely permits the greatest of kings to kiss the toes of his sacred feet; and finally, death is an unattractive prospect, and dying on a cross would be an ignominious end."

-Desiderius Erasmus

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