Thesaurus.com
Dictionary.com
Definitions

passe

[pahs] / pɑs /


passé


Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

See Examples For:

But these days, many of the traditional Olympic sports are beginning to feel passe to a younger generation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2024

While some shoppers and even Ms. Stangl see the term “work wear” as passe, Banana Republic still has a dedicated section on its website called “The Workwear Edit.”

From New York Times ● Jul. 13, 2023

For any readers under 30, this observation will seem ridiculously obvious, even passe.

From Washington Post ● May 2, 2023

"I think the genre has become passe, like beauty pageants used to be a big event on television. It's slipping into that category."

From Reuters ● Mar. 24, 2022

"The matters gothe nat well to passe in Englonde,” he had stated, "nor shall nat do tyll every thyng be common, and that there be no villayns nor gentylmen.”

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

Brydon said he and Coogan originally thought the idea was "a bit passé" but eventually concluded that Winterbottom was right to suggest it.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

That’s what the fashion historian James Laver named the period during and immediately following the French Revolution, which made wearing aristocratic fripperies both dangerous and passé.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025

“The innovation represents something new and is thus creative. However, it is also destructive, as the company whose technology becomes passé is outcompeted.”

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2025

“He says, ‘People once used to put sugar on their salads, but I can’t believe how passé that is,’” Albala explains.

From Salon ● Apr. 27, 2025

There are critics, I suppose, prepared to insist that Weber, like Mozart, is a little passé now.

From Old Scores and New Readings Discussions on Music & Certain Musicians by John F. Runciman

Well, Mozart lived in the last days of the old world, and the old world and the thoughts and sentiments of the old world are certainly a little passés now.

From Old Scores and New Readings Discussions on Music & Certain Musicians by John F. Runciman

The mother shed no tears; when from her bed she saw us carry it away she looked mournfully on, and as we went out she whispered, "Mes beaux jours sont passés."

From The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 by Various

"That's right, growl ahead, thou, tes beaux jours sont passés, but for me l'amour, l'amour—que c'est gai, que c'est frais!" he half sung, half shouted.

From In and out of Three Normady Inns by Anna Bowman Dodd


Vocabulary lists containing passe

Random Word

Spin the wheel and learn a new word!

Get a word

Vocabulary.com logo
by dictionary.com

Join 14,000,000 vocabulary learners

Start learning new words today on VocabTrainer.
You'll remember them forever.

Start training