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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: out of fashion; "a suit of rather antique appearance"; "demode (or outmoded) attire"; "outmoded ideas" [syn: antique, demode, ex, old-fashioned, old-hat, outmoded, passe, passee]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1903 1. not being in style 2. no longer acceptable, current, or usable <outmoded customs>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 no longer in fashion. 2 obsolete. Derivatives: outmodedly adv. outmodedness n.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you describe something as outmoded, you mean that you think it is old-fashioned and no longer useful or relevant to modern life. Romania badly needs aid to modernise its outmoded industries... The political system has become thoroughly outmoded. = outdated ADJ

Moby Thesaurus

abandoned, abjured, antiquated, antique, archaic, back-number, behind the times, dated, dead, demode, deserted, discontinued, disused, done with, extinct, frumpy, has-been, not worth saving, obsolescent, obsolete, old, old hat, old-fashioned, old-timey, oldfangled, on the shelf, out, out of fashion, out of season, out of use, out-of-date, outdated, outworn, passe, past use, pensioned off, relinquished, renounced, resigned, retired, stodgy, styleless, superannuate, superannuated, superseded, unfashionable, vintage, worn-out