out-of-date
adjective
gone out of style or fashion; outmoded; obsolete.
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out of dateadjectiveno longer valid, current, or fashionable; outmoded
out-of-date
American
[out-uhv-deyt]
/ ˈaʊt əvˈdeɪt /
adjective
out of date
British
adjective
out of date
Idioms
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Too old to be used, past the point of expiration, as in This milk is out of date . [Early 1600s]
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Old-fashioned, no longer in style, as in Dean has three suits but they're all out of date . [Early 1800s]
Other Word Forms
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Origin of out-of-date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Something that's out-of-date is either old-fashioned or so old that it's invalid. That typewriter in your closet is out-of-date, as well as that acid wash denim vest. An expired driver's license is out-of-date, and the out-of-date milk in your refrigerator is pretty likely to smell sour (depending on how out-of-date it is). Another way to be out-of-date is to be hopelessly unfashionable, like your mom's out-of-date bell bottom jeans or your grandparents' out-of-date kitchen, with its appliances from 1970. You can also use the words obsolete or outdated to mean out-of-date.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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Daisy even refers to herself that way in the song’s bridge: “I’m just a victim of time / Obsolete in my prime / Out of date and outclassed / By my past.”
From New York Times • Jul. 13, 2018
Out of date equipment was also found in the emergency stores.
From The Guardian • Mar. 16, 2010
Out of date was her nondescript bonnet of the poke persuasion, rusty her black silk dress, ineffectual her attitude.
From Lonesome Town by Dorrance, Ethel
Out of date as the work is now, it was the artillery of the movement of progress then.
From Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) by Foote, G. W. (George William)
Out of date, man, with them that knows.
From Ovington's Bank by Weyman, Stanley J.
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