ADJECTIVE
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old; no longer valid or fashionable
out-of-date ideas
an obsolete locomotive
obsolete words
superannuated laws
outdated equipment
obsolete words
How To Use out-of-date In A Sentence
- The report reveals that decisions are based on ‘inaccurate and out-of-date country information, unreasoned decisions about people's credibility and a failure to properly consider complex torture cases.’
- Orwell wrote, in his great wartime essay The Lion and the Unicorn, that ‘the Bloomsbury highbrow with his mechanical snigger is as out-of-date as the cavalry colonel’.
- The Editor says One of the commonest letters of complaint or query that we receive covers the topic of out-of-date test kits.
- He therefore lays little stress on geographical wonders, and in searching for detailed information retails long passages of by then out-of-date description, which can make the interpretation of his evidence very hazardous.
- Hugo Wolf overthrew the out-of-dated ideas and claimed that "language is first", "objective lyricism" and" truth", displayed his" gesamtkunstwerk" by dramatic sentiment.
- The claim that he couldn't act might have been true a couple of years ago but it most definitely is quite untrue and quite out-of-date now.
- In short, land mines are nasty, out-of-date, and dangerous to your own side.
- Having finished the hurried and uncomfortable meal, consisting chiefly of tinned tongue and a rather out-of-date cream cheese, Toni was allowed to run home to change her dress; and at half-past two precisely she was back, robed in the daintiest, filmiest white lawn gown, to take her place with the other stallholders, in readiness for the opening ceremony, performed, much to the delight of the entire Madgwick family, by a real duchess. The Making of a Soul
- out-of-date ideas
- There is not enough general coverage for the average player but too much old, out-of-date material to satisfy the very strong theory hound.