Outmoded
No longer in fashion or current; outdated or no longer useful or relevant.
adjectiveOutmoded
No longer in fashion or current; outdated or no longer useful or relevant.
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Imagine This
Imagine walking into a showroom where every item is sleek and modern except one dusty gadget from the 1980s, clearly outmoded and begging for replacement.
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Sounds Like
out-MOHD-id
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Looks Like
out + mode (out of fashion)
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Remember This
Root 'mode' means fashion; prefix 'out-' means beyond or not. So outmoded = beyond the mode (not in fashion).
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Other Forms
outmodedlyadverb
outmodednessnoun
outmodishadjective
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Connect With
obsolete, outdated, antiquated, archaic, passé
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Note
Use to describe objects, ideas, or practices, not people. Often contrasted with 'modern' or 'up-to-date'.