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• out-of-date
  out-of-date

  adjective

  gone out of style or fashion; outmoded; obsolete.
• out of date
  out of date

  adjective

  no longer valid, current, or fashionable; outmoded

out-of-date

American  

[out-uhv-deyt] / ˈaʊt əvˈdeɪt /

adjective

1. gone out of style or fashion; outmoded; obsolete.

   out-of-date fashions; out-of-date ideas.

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out of date British  

adjective

1. no longer valid, current, or fashionable; outmoded

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out of date Idioms  

1. Too old to be used, past the point of expiration, as in This milk is out of date . [Early 1600s]

2. Old-fashioned, no longer in style, as in Dean has three suits but they're all out of date . [Early 1800s]

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Other Word Forms

• out-of-dateness
  noun

Etymology

Origin of out-of-date

First recorded in 1620–30

Explanation

Something that's out-of-date is either old-fashioned or so old that it's invalid. That typewriter in your closet is out-of-date, as well as that acid wash denim vest. An expired driver's license is out-of-date, and the out-of-date milk in your refrigerator is pretty likely to smell sour (depending on how out-of-date it is). Another way to be out-of-date is to be hopelessly unfashionable, like your mom's out-of-date bell bottom jeans or your grandparents' out-of-date kitchen, with its appliances from 1970. You can also use the words obsolete or outdated to mean out-of-date.

Example Sentences

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out-of-date out of date

This Florida timeshare sounds like out-of-date cheese with a bad odor.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 16, 2026

The other embraced the insult, saying: “We’re an out-of-date, birdbrain of a store!”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026

BBC journalists were able to order so-called skinny jabs to Northern Ireland from Voy and MedExpress using false data and out-of-date images, with no further verification required.

From BBC ● Feb. 20, 2026

There are self-reflexive meta gags about “hard-working cartoon writers” and “reappropriating out-of-date catchphrases.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2026

There are a few pictures and a very out-of-date blog.

From "The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl" by Stacy McAnulty

He increasingly battled with a top command he cast as out of date, not flexible and bogged down with bureaucracy.

From Barron's ● Jul. 16, 2026

And as a result, their numbers are always out of date by the time they are published, because they are typically reported a month in arrears.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 2, 2026

But some viruses are adept at changing their appearance – or mutating – so vaccines can quickly go out of date.

From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026

The book invokes James Carville and David Brooks as prominent talking heads, which is about 20 years out of date.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026

Those will get saved to the end, and by the time I have the time to deal with them, they’ll be so out of date that I’ll just have to apologize: Sorry, man.

From "It’s Kind of a Funny Story" by Ned Vizzini

Related Words

• antiquated
• archaic
• obsolete
• outmoded