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passe
adjective as in old-fashioned
Weak matches
- ancient
- antiquated
- antique
- archaic
- behind the times
- bygone
- dated
- dead
- démodé
- demoded
- disapproved
- dowdy
- extinct
- fusty
- grown old
- moldy
- musty
- neglected
- not current
- not modern
- not with it
- obsolescent
- of old
- of olden days
- of the old school
- old
- old-fangled
- old-hat
- old-time
- olden
- oldfangled
- out
- out of it
- out of style
- out-of-date
- out-of-style
- outworn
- passé
- past
- primitive
- rococo
- superannuated
- unstylish
- vintage
Example Sentences
But these days, many of the traditional Olympic sports are beginning to feel passe to a younger generation.
“How many have laughed at the church, announcing that she was passe, that her days were over and that they would bury her?” he said in a 2021 Mass.
It’s a snappy, gutsy comedy about how kids are spoiled and ignorant, and yet the adult workplace is only passingly more mature.
This felt, he reported, “like hanging horizontally on belts, as if in a suspended state,” a circumstance passingly familiar to anyone who has been on a roller coaster or jumped off a diving board.
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.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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