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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not current |
| Synonyms: | antiquated, back-number, dated, has-been, obsolete, of the old school, old hat, old hat, old-fashioned, out of date, out-of-date, outdated, outmoded, passe, square, unfashionable |
| Main Entry: | loser |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person, thing that fails |
| Synonyms: | also-ran, deadbeat, defeated, disadvantaged, down-and-outer, dud, failure, flop, flunkee, has-been, underdog, underprivileged |
| Antonyms: | achiever, success, winner |
| Main Entry: | obsolete |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | no longer in use, in vogue |
| Synonyms: | anachronistic, ancient, antediluvian, antiquated, antique, archaic, bygone, dated, dead, dead and gone, dinosaur, discarded, disused, done for, dusty, extinct, fossil, gone, had it, has-been, horse and buggy, kaput, moldy, moth-eaten, old, old-fashioned, old-hat, old-school, out*, out-of-date, out-of-fashion, outmoded, outworn, passé, stale, superannuated, superseded, timeworn, unfashionable |
| Notes: | things that are no longer used or needed are obsolete; things that are becoming obsolete are obsolescent |
| Antonyms: | contemporary, current, in vogue, modern, new, present, up-to-date |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | outdated/out-of-date |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | old-fashioned |
| Synonyms: | anachronous, antiquated, antique, archaic, back number, behind the times, dated, dusty, démodé, has-been, moth-eaten, musty, not with it, obsolete, old, old-hat, out, out-of-style, outmoded, passé, square, tired, unfashionable, vintage |
| Antonyms: | current, fashionable, modern, new, popular, up-to-date |
| Main Entry: | outmoded |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | obsolete, old-fashioned |
| Synonyms: | anachronistic, antediluvian, antiquated, antique, archaic, behind the times, bent, bygone, dated, dead, dinosaur, disused, démodé, extinct, fossilized, has-been, horse and buggy, moldy, moth-eaten, musty, obsolescent, obsolete, old-hat, old-time, olden, out, out-of-date, out-of-style, outworn, passé, superannuated, superseded, tired, unfashionable, unstylish, unusable, vintage |
| Antonyms: | current, modern, new, new-fangled, popular, up-to-date |
| Main Entry: | passé |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | old-fashioned |
| Synonyms: | antiquated, belated, dated, dead, disused, démodé, extinct, has-been, obsolete, out-of-date, outdated, outmoded, outworn, superseded, unfashionable, yesterday |
| Antonyms: | current, fashionable, in, in vogue, modern, new |
| Main Entry: | outdated |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | old-fashioned |
| Synonyms: | anachronous, antiquated, antique, archaic, back number, dated, démodé, has-been, moth-eaten, obsolete, old, old hat, out, out-of-date, out-of-style, outmoded, passé, square, tired, unfashionable, vintage |
| Antonyms: | current, modern |
| Main Entry: | old hat |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | overfamiliar |
| Synonyms: | back-number, behind the times, dated, has-been, old-fashioned, old-school, outmoded |
| Antonyms: | up-to-date |
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| Main Entry: | failure |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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short, abortive, addle, aground, all up with, at fault, bankrupt, befooled, bootless, borne down, broken, broken down, capsized, cast away, crossed, dashed, dead beat, defeated, deficient, destroyed, disconcerted, dished, done for, done up, downtrodden, failing, flambe, foiled, foundered, fruitless, frustrated, grounded, hobbling, hoist on with one's own petard, in a sorry plight, ineffective, ineffectual, inefficacious, inefficient, insufficient, knocked on the head, lame, left in the lurch, lost, minus, nonsuited, oligophrenic, out of depth, out of one's reckoning, overborne, overwhelmed, perfunctory, played out, ruined, ruined root and branch, sacrificed, shipwrecked, short of, still, struck down, stultified, successless, swamped, thrown away, thrown off one's balance, thrown on one's back, thrown on one's beam ends, tripping, unattained, unavailing, uncompleted, undone, unfortunate, unhinged, unhorsed, unreached, unsuccessful, victimized, wide of the mark, wrecked
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