ISEE/SSAT Vocabulary BuilderWordsOoutmoded
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outmoded
Meaning: no longer useful or fashionable because something newer exists
outmoded in a sentence
How outmoded is used in real sentences:
The museum preserved several outmoded machines from the early days of printing.
The decade-old software was outmoded and could not run on the new computers.
“The company still relied on outmoded copying presses, although newer offices used reliable typewriters, and its books bristled with archaic abbreviations that younger clerks scarcely recognized.”
— from the passage The Threads in the Ledger
Synonyms for outmoded
Other words for outmoded — outdated, obsolete and antiquated — carry the same meaning.
- outdated
- obsolete
- antiquated
Antonyms of outmoded
Words that mean the opposite of outmoded:
- modern
- current
- contemporary
Where it comes from
From out and mode, referring to something no longer in the current fashion.
Memory hook
OUT-MODED means out of the modern mode or fashion.