outmoded
Americanadjective
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gone out of style; no longer fashionable.
outmoded styles.
- Synonyms:
- old-fashioned, dated, unfashionable
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not acceptable by present standards; no longer usable; obsolete.
outmoded dwellings; outmoded teaching methods.
adjective
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no longer fashionable or widely accepted
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no longer practical or usable
Other Word Forms
- outmodedly adverb
- outmodedness noun
Etymology
Origin of outmoded
Example Sentences
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Traditional moviegoing is outmoded for most people, he said at a Time magazine event this year.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 20, 2025
You’re shooting in this somewhat outmoded format of VistaVision.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2025
You’d think that would be easier, given that almost all modern series have truncated seasons, down from the 20+ episodes that your average television season used to have before streaming outmoded that model.
From Salon • Feb. 7, 2025
“But too many of these countries rely on outmoded strategies to become advanced economies. They depend just on investment for too long - or they switch prematurely to innovation.”
From BBC • Aug. 4, 2024
One was an old hand-drawn affair tracing out an acre or two of land, and marked with the now outmoded pictographs of old China.
From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov
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