antiquated

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US /ˈæntɪˌkweɪtɪd/
adj verb Freq #29448

Meanings

  1. 1
    adj

    Old-fashioned and no longer useful or suitable for modern times.

    The factory still relied on antiquated machinery from the 1950s.

  2. 2
    adj

    So extremely old that it seems to belong to a much earlier age.

    He held some rather antiquated views about how women should behave.

Thesaurus

Synonyms
1 adj · old-fashioned and no longer... disusedobsoleteoutdated
2 adj · so extremely old that it... archaic

Etymology

From antiquate + -ed.

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