outdated

American  

[out-dey-tid] / ˌaʊtˈdeɪ tɪd /

adjective

1. no longer in use or fashionable; out-of-date; outmoded; antiquated.

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outdated British  

/ ˌaʊtˈdeɪtɪd /

adjective

1. old-fashioned or obsolete

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Etymology

Origin of outdated

First recorded in 1610–20; out- + date ¹ + -ed ²

Example Sentences

That case, the company said, “related to an engineer following inaccurate advice that an AI tool inferred from an outdated internal wiki,” and none involved “AI-written code.”

From Los Angeles Times

In reality, replication studies require significant time, resources, and careful experimentation, and meaningful scientific questions do not become outdated so quickly.

From Science Daily

In contrast, “Jesus Christ Superstar Live!” diverges from television’s holiday tradition of genuflecting before Hollywood history and its long-accepted and outdated vision of what religious figures look like.

From Salon

“It’s an outdated concept to be using race as a proxy for how people are going to vote. It doesn’t hold up in real life.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Highly regarded as an investor, Combs, a boyish-looking 55, helped return Geico, which was burdened with outdated technology and bloated costs, to profitability.

From Barron's

Related Words

• antiquated
• archaic
• obsolete
• old
• out-of-date
• outmoded