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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
out-of-date
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
out-of-date theories on education
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ An immense pile of out-of-date articles will possibly obscure the purpose in view and deter the student from learning.
▪ Books may also be withdrawn if their content becomes out-of-date even though they are still being used.
▪ His self-reproaches had been in pickle for a year, and the notion that they might be out-of-date escaped him.
▪ It needed too much spent on repairs, and the stock was old-fashioned and out-of-date.
▪ The Advertisers Annual lists an agency's accounts but these can go quickly out-of-date so check first.
▪ This out-of-date remedy may be more dangerous than the plant poison.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
out-of-date

out-of-date \out-of-date\ adj.

  1. same as old-fashioned, a.,

  2. Syn: antique, demode, old-fashioned, old-hat(predicate), outmoded, out of fashion(predicate), out of style(predicate), passe, passee.

    2. Unacceptable because it is inferior to current standards, procedures, or technology; outmoded[2]; noncurrent. current

    Syn: obsolete, outmoded[2], superannuated.

  3. no longer valid.

    Syn: back(prenominal), outdated.

Wiktionary
out-of-date

a. (alternative form of out of date English)

WordNet
out-of-date

adj. old; no longer in use or valid or fashionable; "obsolete words"; "an obsolete locomotive"; "outdated equipment"; "superannuated laws"; "out-of-date ideas" [syn: obsolete, outdated, superannuated]

Usage examples of "out-of-date".

The place was one of a run of glossy new restaurants and boutiques on the old Hispanic strip, dotted in among the botanicas and social clubs, and the shuttered outlets full of dusty plastic furniture and out-of-date appliances.

He knew he had a pad of television-style storyboard paper around somewhere, out-of-date for sure but still usable.

The Halstaynian version of the multifield packet was a cumbersome object, nearly two cubic inches in volume and about sixty years out-of-date by Commonality standards.

Chen himself: beautiful spaceports standing empty, gleaming new domes and plexes showing a certain air of decay, the listless officials in their out-of-date Imperial uniforms adhering to rules without enthusiasm.

The models Ares was carrying were out-of-date: the design of the platform, already nearly a decade old, had become frozen around those customized, low-weight, low-power machines years before.

A boy and two men were busy hanging the great sliding door at the south end, while the painters--come down from Bonneville early that morning--were engaged in adjusting the spray and force engine, by means of which Annixter had insisted upon painting the vast surfaces of the barn, condemning the use of brushes and pots for such work as old-fashioned and out-of-date.

Suddenly everything Norla knew about ships was more than a century out-of-date.

Ivan's no great businessman, but at least he listens to his manager and goes to Conrad or William… used to go, poor lamb… for advice, and has proper audits… but that know-it-all Forsyth, he went his own way and wouldn't listen to anybody and he bought a huge warehouse on a mortgage and thousands of lawn mowers that were supposed to cut the grass while you sat and watched, but they were already going out-of-date when he signed a contract for them, and also they kept breaking down.

The broad brim of his Panama hat was snapped down to the side and back, in an out-of-date, somewhat gangsterish American style.

It is packed with the sort of slightly out-of-date gangsterisms that anybody could pick up from a Mafia thriller.

The stranger wore an out-of-date polo coat that was too big for him and a slouch hat that made his face look small, his features pinched, mean.

But in her one last semiregular gig, Sunday nights at the Kingsborough Hotel, she played a dusty, romantic, out-of-date jazz.

Mothballs, the long-ago urinations of successive cat companions, the smell of unchanged and uncleaned bird-cages, the smell of mothballs in old tweed skirts and out-of-date dresses and rubbed-bare, patchy fur coats.

Corbett once had a waiting room just like this, and the magazines were just as out-of-date.

What they saw was Amnon in coveralls, and four older folk in out-of-date short-sleeved windbreakers, carrying poles.