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/ˌaʊtmˈoʊdəd/ /ˌaʊtmˈoʊdɪd/ Listen

adjective

outmoded adj.

Same as old-fashioned, a., 3.

Synonyms: antique, demode, old-fashioned (3), old-hat(predicate), out-of-date, out of fashion(predicate), out of style(predicate), passe, passee.

Unacceptable because it is inferior to current standards, procedures, or technology.

Synonyms: obsolete, outdated, out-of-date, superannuated, old-fashioned (2).

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Etymology of 'Outmoded'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Outmoded" Quotes from Famous Books

... Mexico has a free market economy with a mixture of modern and outmoded industry and agriculture, increasingly dominated by the private sector. The Mexican economy enters 1997 in the midst of an economic recovery that began to pick up steam in mid-1996. After plummeting more than 6% in 1995 in the aftermath of the peso crisis, economic activity ...

— The 1997 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

... inadequate, outmoded, poor service outside Chisinau, some effort to modernize is under way domestic: new subscribers face long wait for service; mobile cellular telephone service being introduced international: service through Romania and Russia via landline; satellite earth stations ...

— The 2002 CIA World Factbook • US Government

... breath, compressed his lips, and then said, in a lower, somewhat calmer tone, "Know what she'll do? That baby will hang in the air just like your aircar, there—and without benefit of those outmoded, ...

— By Proxy • Gordon Randall Garrett

... general assessment: inadequate, outmoded, poor service outside Chisinau, some effort to modernize is under way domestic: new subscribers face long wait for service; mobile cellular telephone service being introduced international: service through Romania and Russia via landline; satellite earth stations ...

— The 2002 CIA World Factbook • US Government

... sage surveyed me thoughtfully. "India too is young. The ancient RISHIS {FN5-3} laid down ineradicable patterns of spiritual living. Their hoary dictums suffice for this day and land. Not outmoded, not unsophisticated against the guiles of materialism, the disciplinary precepts mold India still. By millenniums-more than embarrassed scholars care to compute!-the skeptic Time has validated Vedic worth. Take it ...

— Autobiography of a YOGI • Paramhansa Yogananda