antiqueadjective

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

typical of the past; not modern
old-fashionedHe's very old-fashioned and thinks that women should not work outside the home.
antiquatedThe school wants to update its antiquated computer system.
datedThe hotel's decor is starting to look dated.
outdatedMany hospitals struggle with outdated equipment and facilities.
quaintThe area is full of quaint little villages.
antiqueShe gave me an antique bedcover her great aunt made.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Old or old-fashioned
age-old
ageing
ancient
antediluvian
anti-progressive
fossilization
fossilize
fossilized
frumpy
fustily
out of date
outdate
outdated
outdatedly
outworn
unmodernized
unmodish
unprogressive
unreconstructed
unsmart

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outmoded | American Dictionary

outmoded
adjective
us/ˌɑʊtˈmoʊ·dɪd/
old-fashioned; no longer modern, useful, or necessary:
The city is replacing its outmoded sewage-treatment plant.

Examples of outmoded

outmoded
Maybe, you will say, narratives are outmoded and unrealistic at the grand scale.
Here was a city that tested traditional notions of history, where 15-year-old buildings were outmoded and targeted for dynamite.
Men see with their ideas as well as with their eyes and crowd the novel life about them into outmoded concepts.
Unfortunately prevailing theory is vague, outmoded and diffuse.
An existing product becomes outmoded when a product is introduced that performs the function better.
It is important to note that this analysis is not the same as a 'transcription' or 'port' from an outmoded system to a newer one.
For the most part they preferred to cling to long-established and in many cases outmoded styles of architecture in their effort to create imposing landmarks.
The discussion of individual paintings and sculpture is lively but often based on outmoded interpretations or errors derived from careless observation.
But cost containment creates its own potent political risks, raising the spectre of waiting lists and outmoded facilities, and creating highly public conflict with providers.
If normative practice is recognised as coming equipped with an agenda or agendas, then alternate practice identifies such agendas as outmoded and proposes their replacement.
Dangers of slavish over-adherence to deleterious 'substitute judgements', potentially based on outmoded and ill-informed previous views, are, it is to be hoped, avoided.
Although many heritage sites around the world are endangered, not all are outmoded.
Materialists select an easy target in attacking outmoded forms of ontological dualism.
Although the dress was conservative, it was not entirely outmoded.
At the same time, the enlightened socialist child would contribute to dissuade the older generation from outmoded habits.
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