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out of style

Old-fashioned \Old`-fash"ioned\, a. Formed according to old or obsolete fashion or pattern; belonging to or characteristic of times past; adhering to old customs, styles, or ideas; as, an old-fashioned dress, girl; old-fashioned wire-rimmed glasses. ``Old-fashioned men of wit.''
--Addison.

This old-fashioned, quaint abode.
--Longfellow.

2. Unacceptable or suboptimum because of having been superseded by something more recent; outmoded[2]; out-of-date. [Narrower terms: old-fashioned, out of fashion(predicate), out of style(predicate), passe, passee.]

Syn: antique, old-hat(predicate), outmoded, out-of-date.

3. Unfashionably out of date; out of style. [Narrower terms: unfashionable (vs. fashionable)]

Syn: demode, out of fashion(predicate), out of style(predicate), passe, passee.

Usage examples of "out of style".

I have three teams scouring the station, rebuilding conduits and junction boxes as if they were going out of style.

My good god -- you get fed glorious meals, you get to use my can, my credit card, I bought you a decent suit that isn't two years out of style with my money -- you get to screw me.

His eyes seemed to look through rather than at me, and his clothes were ten to fifty years out of style.

He knew from what he had heard at various social gatherings he had attended, in Salador and Roldem that by this time next year everything he wore would be counted out of style, and new fashions would be all the rage.