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Antiquated definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

AN'TIQUATED, pp. Grown old; obsolete; out of use; having lost its binding force by non-observance; as an antiquated law.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period; "a ramshackle antediluvian tenement"; "antediluvian ideas"; "archaic laws" [syn: antediluvian, antiquated, archaic]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1601 1. obsolete <an antiquated calendar> 2. outmoded or discredited by reason of age ; being out of style or fashion <antiquated methods of farming> 3. advanced in age Synonyms: see old

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. old-fashioned; out of date. Etymology: eccl.L antiquare antiquat- make old

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Antiquated An"ti*qua`ted, a. Grown old. Hence: Bygone; obsolete; out of use; old-fashioned; as, an antiquated law. ``Antiquated words.'' --Dryden. Old Janet, for so he understood his antiquated attendant was denominated. --Sir W. Scott. Syn: Ancient; old; antique; obsolete. See Ancient.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you describe something as antiquated, you are criticizing it because it is very old or old-fashioned. Many factories are so antiquated they are not worth saving... ADJ [disapproval]

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Obsolete, unfashionable, antique, bygone, archaic, ancient, grown old, out of use, out of fashion, out of date, old-fashioned, gone by.

Moby Thesaurus

Gothic, Victorian, abandoned, abjured, ago, ancient, antediluvian, antique, archaic, blown over, by, bygone, bypast, classical, dated, dead, dead and buried, deceased, defunct, departed, deserted, discontinued, disused, done with, elapsed, expired, extinct, finished, forgotten, fossil, fossilized, fusty, gone, gone glimmering, gone-by, grown old, has-been, irrecoverable, lapsed, medieval, mid-Victorian, moldy, no more, not worth saving, obsolescent, obsolete, of other times, old, old hat, old-fashioned, old-timey, old-world, oldfangled, on the shelf, out, out of date, out of use, out-of-date, outdated, outmoded, outworn, over, passe, passed, passed away, past, past use, pensioned off, petrified, primitive, quaint, relinquished, renounced, resigned, retired, run out, superannuate, superannuated, superseded, vanished, worn-out, wound up