Antiquated
['æntɪkweɪtɪd] or ['æntɪkwetɪd]
Definition
(a.) Grown old. Hence: Bygone; obsolete; out of use; old-fashioned; as, an antiquated law.
Checker: Lowell
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Obsolete, unfashionable, antique, by-gone, archaic, ancient, grown old, out of use, out of fashion, out of date, old-fashioned, gone by.
Checker: Selma
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:By-gone, quaint, old-fashioned, obsolete
ANT:Fashionable, modish, stylish, modern
Typist: Randall
Examples
- Prussianized Germany was at once the newest and the most antiquated thing in Western Europe. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Vows, said the Abbot, must be unloosed, worthy Franklin, or permit me rather to say, worthy Thane, though the title is antiquated. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- It was another huge medley of contingents, and it relied for its chief force upon that now antiquated weapon, the war chariot. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But the use of antiquated machinery is not followed by those who lead the procession in this industrial age. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
Typist: Randall