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obsolete
adjective as in no longer in use, in vogue
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anachronistic, ancient, antediluvian, antique, 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moldy, moth-eaten, old, old-fashioned, old-hat, old-school, out, out-of-fashion, outworn, passé, stale, superannuated, superseded, timeworn, unfashionable
Example Sentences
“Your broker is now obsolete,” declares the ad, from a company called E*Trade Securities.
So the TiVo and ReplayTV boxes that once identified their owners as early adopters of a new video technology have become candidates for museums of obsolete gizmos.
Although it is obsolete in this sense, the verb survives in Welsh English in the sense of to scratch, especially with claws or fingernails, along with the noun use, to scratch.
On one hand, the 25-year-old worries digital replicas of models could render her job obsolete.
Considering the Meiji period was when the samurai became obsolete, the potential for social commentary mixed in with high-stakes combat seems pretty high.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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