Obsolete

Definition: Obsolete

Obsolete

Adjective

1. Old; no longer in use or valid or fashionable; "obsolete words"; "an obsolete locomotive"; "outdated equipment"; "superannuated laws"; "out-of-date ideas".

2. No longer in use; "obsolete words".

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Date "obsolete" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references)

Satire

Science

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Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Obsolete

Inutility

Vain, empty, inane; gainless, profitless, fruitless; unserviceable, unprofitable; ill-spent; unproductive; hors de combat; effete, past work; (impaired); obsolete; (old); fit for the dust hole; good for nothing; of no earthly use; not worth having, not worth powder and shot; leading to no end, uncalled for; unnecessary, unneeded.

Neologism

Adjective: neologic, neological; archaic; obsolete; (old); colloquial; Anglice.

Oldness

Antiquated, of other times, rococo, of the old school, after-age, obsolete; out of date, out of fashion, out of it; stale, old-fashioned, behind the age; old-world; exploded; gone out, gone by; passe, run out; senile; time worn; crumbling; (deteriorated); secondhand.

The Past

Adjective: past, gone, gone by, over, passed away, bygone, foregone; elapsed, lapsed, preterlapsed, expired, no more, run out, blown over, has-been, that has been, extinct, antediluvian, antebellum, never to return, gone with the wind, exploded, forgotten, irrecoverable; obsolete; (old).

Vulgarity

Obsolete; (antiquated); unfashionable; newfangled; (unfamiliar); odd; (ridiculous).

Crosswords: Obsolete

Unlikely, I'm an obsolete design (Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines; writing credit: James Cameron; Gale Anne Hurd)

If you understand something today, it must be obsolete. (references; author: unknown)

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Books

• Annual Guide to Stocks 2002: Directory of Obsolete Securities (Directory of Obsolete Securities, 2002) (reference)

• Boy or Girl?: The Sex Selection Technique That Makes All Others Obsolete (reference)

• Colonial American English, a Glossary: Words and Phrases Found in Colonial Writing, Now Archaic, Obscure, Obsolete, or Whose Meanings Have Changed (reference)

• Cybercarnage: Everything We Own Is Obsolete (reference)

• Obsolete Communism (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• The Twilight Zone: Obsolete Man/ Death's Head Revisited (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Obsolete (reference)

• Obsolete Systems (reference)

• You Are Obsolete (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Conversion. Toy furniture to dies for incendiary bombs. Founded in 1900, this small Midwest machine shop is busy today with defense work. Note overhead power-driven belts, which, though obsolete, are still producing full speed ahead. Sivon Machine Company. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Lap in the old obsolete language signifies high, and untuh, a governor, from which they say by corruption was derived Laputa, from Lapuntuh

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Health

If superior, the "new," noninvasive approach may ultimately render cholecystectomy obsolete. (references)

Business

Over half of the RDN fighting units will become obsolete within the next decade. (references)

New features introduced on the U.S. market may become obsolete by the time they reach the Saudi market. (references)

However, its analog equipment and voice operators are obsolete today and the need for the service is minimal. (references)

Economic History

Bulgaria

Nearly 85 percent of BDZ's maintenance equipment is obsolete. (references)

Ukraine

The rest are serviced by obsolete relay and mechanical equipment. (references)

Czech Rep

Energy companies are replacing obsolete transformers and control systems. (references)

Political Economy

ALGERIA

Obsolete telecommunications systems are also an impediment to banking reform and more generally to economic growth. (references)

TURKEY

Some U.S. exporters report that a new regulation restricting import of obsolete items has been applied arbitrarily to exclude equipment which has been manufactured more than a few months prior to importation. (references)

KUWAIT

Standards for medical, telecommunications and computer equipment tend to lag behind technological developments, with the result that government tenders often specify the purchase of obsolete, more costly items. (references)

Worker Rights

Honduras

Industry leaders, in turn, contend that the obsolete and cumbersome Labor Code discourages foreign investment and requires significant amendment. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "obsolete": become obsolete ♦ disused obsolete ♦ obsolete machine. Additional references.

Ending with "obsolete": long-obsolete, soon-to-be-obsolete.

Albanian

që s'përdoret më, i vjetruar (antiquated, back number, dated, decrepit, dilapidated, disreputable, fusty, moldy, moth-eaten, mouldy, napless, old hat, out of date, outdated, outworn, overage, rusty, seasoned, second hand, superannuated, threadbare, time worn, worm-eaten), i grirë (beaten, cankered, hackneyed, minced, outworn, stale, threadbare, trite), i dalë nga përdorimi, i dalë mode (demode, demoded, old fashioned, out of date, outmoded, outworn, primitive). (various references)

Arabic 

‏ممات (archaic, outdated), ‏مهمل (abandoned, antiquated, careless, derelict, deserted, discarded, disregarded, disregardful, disused, forgetful, forgotten, forsaken, heedless, ignored, in disuse, inadvertent, inattentive, incautious, left out, left over, neglected, neglectful, negligent, no longer of use, omitted, out of use, outdated, reckless, refuse, regardless, remiss, slack, sloven, unpointed, waste), ‏مهجور (abandoned, antiquated, archaic, archaism, bygone, derelict, deserted, desolate, disused, forlorn, forsaken, in disuse, lonely, lonesome, outdated, outmoded, solitary, unfrequented), ‏قديم (ancient, antiquated, antique, archaic, back, classic, classical, hoary, immemorial, of long standing, old, old fashioned, old hand, old time, old timer, old-established, oldster, once, out of date, outdated, outmoded, primitive, quondam, sometime, stale, staleness, stock, superannuate, time honored, time worn, very old), ‏سقط لنهاية المدة, ‏بالي (reck, threadbare), ‏باطل (bad, bootless, delusive, delusory, dud, ineffective, invalid, nugatory, null, null and void, unfruitful, vicious, void, worthless), ‏بائد (extinct). (various references)

Bulgarian 

старомоден (antiquated, archaic, corny, dowdy, fossil, fusty, hunker, moldy, old fashioned, old hat, old time, out of date, outmoded, passe, primitive, quaint, square-toed, traditional), остарял (antiquated, dated, dead, extinct, grown old, hoary, moldy, moss-grown, mouldy, musty, old, out of date, outdated, outworn, passe, played out, prehistoric, primitive, rusty, superannuated, worm-eaten), отживял (antiquated, dated, musty, out of date, quaint, time worn), закърнял (aborted, abortive, atrophied, stunted, vestigial), излязъл от употреба (out of date). (various references)

Chinese 

过时 (Antiquated, Outdated, out-of-date). (various references)

Czech

zastaralý (antiquated, antique, archaic, inveterate, moss-grown, out of date, outdated, superannuated), nemoderní (old fashioned, unfashionable). (various references)

Danish

skønne en pris i den seneste periode for det produkt,der ikke længere eksisterer (to impute a price for an obsolete product which no longer exists in the most recent period), industrielt brakland (industrial fallow, obsolete industrial zone). (various references)

Dutch

in onbruik geraakt (obsolescence). (various references)

Farsi 

مهجور (Dead), منسوخ (Abrogate, Dead, Obsolescent, Outdated), متروکه (Disuse), کهنه (Ancient, Antique, Archaic, Bygone, Clout, Dead, Gray, Lint, Musty, Obsolescent, Old, Olden, Pokey, Ragged, Rundown, Shabby, Tacky, Timeworn, Wad), ازکارافتاده (Effete, Lameduck, Sear, Seedy). (various references)

Finnish

vanhentunut (antiquated, archaic, dated). (various references)

French

obsolète, vieux, suranné, périmé, dépassé, démodé, caduc. (various references)

German

veraltet (antiquated, archaic, dated, dead, obsolescent, obsoletely, out of date, outdated, outmoded, out-of-date, outworn, timeworn). (various references)

Greek 

απηρχαιωμένοσ (antiquated, timeworn), απαρχαιωμένος (antiquated, archaic, outdated). (various references)

Hebrew 

מיושן (antiquated, archaic, dated, old fashioned, old fogey, oldfashioned, out of date, outdated, outworn, passe), ישן נושן (old fashioned, stale, very old), עתיק (ancient, antique, old), נושן (ancient, chronic, old). (various references)

Hungarian

idejétmúlt (fusty, musty, outdated, outmoded, outworn, played out, to be out of favour), elavult (antiquated, archaic, fogyish, hand-me-down, musty, out of date, outdated, outworn, played out, to be out of favour, to become a dead letter), régies (antique, archaic, quaint), ósdi (antediluvian, antiquated, crippled with age, fogey, fogy, old hat). (various references)

Italian

obsoleto, scaduto (due, expired, out of date, overdue, payable), arcàico (outdated, outmoded, timeworn), antiquato (antiquated, bygone, obsolescent, old fashioned, oldfangled, outdated, outmoded, quaint, rusty, Square, stuffy, superannuated). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

廃れた (disused, out of date). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

すたれた (disused, out of date). (various references)

Korean 

구식 (Outdated). (various references)

Manx

jeh'n chenn yannoo, ass ymmyd (broken down, disused, extinct), ass oash, ass cliaghtey. (various references)

Pig Latin

obsoleteay.(various references)

Portuguese

obsoleto (antiquated, antique, atrophied, behind the times, old, outdated, passe), fora de uso (atrophied, out of use, passe), fora de moda (archaic, behindhand, old, old-fangled, old-fashioned, out of fashion, outdated, outmoded, out-of-date, passe, square-toed, superannuated, unfashionable), antiquado (ancient, antiquated, antique, moth-eaten, old, old-fashioned, out of use, outdated, outmoded, out-of-date, outworn, passe, rococo, superannuated, unfashionable, worm-eaten). (various references)

Romanian

uzat (cast off, decrepit, effete, jaded, mangy, napless, outworn, peeled, seedy, shabby, spent, used, well worn, worn out), scos din uz (disabled), scos din circulaţie, ros (gnawed, jaded, napless, seedy, threadbare), purtat (shabby, used, worn), demodat (antiquated, dated, disused, frumpish, old fashioned, out, out of date, out of fashion, outmoded, passe, quaint, rusty, stale, unfashionable), atrofiat, arhaic (antiquated, antique, archaic, old), învechit (antediluvian, antiquated, back, crusted, dated, disused, grey headed, inveterate, lapsed, musty, obsolescent, old, old fashioned, out of date, outdated, outworn, passe, rusty, stale, superannuated, threadbare). (various references)

Russian 

устаревший (antiquated, demode, moldy, moss-grown, moth-eaten, mouldy, out of date, outdated, outmoded, out-of-date, outworn, passe, rococo, rusty, timeworn, time-worn), устарелый (antiquated, archaic, behind the times, crusted, old fashioned, old hat, oldfangled, old-hat, out of date, outdated, worm-eaten), рудиментарный (vestigial), вышедший из употребления (dated, extinct, out of use), атрофированный (atrophied). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zastareo (anachronistic, antiquated, expired, moss-grown, old fashioned, out of date, outdated, superannuated), starinski (ancient, antique, archaic, old fashioned, old time, old world, oldfangled). (various references)

Spanish

anticuado (ancient, antediluvian, antiquated, antique, dated, dead, old fashioned, oldfangled, oldfashioned, out of date, outdated, outmoded, Square, superannuated, timeworn, uncool). (various references)

Swedish

föråldrad (antiquated, archaic, bygone, moldy, mouldy, obsolescent, out of date, outdated, outmoded, passe). (various references)

Turkish

modası geçmiş (antiquated, archaic, corny, demode, demoded, fogeyish, fogyish, fusty, moss-grown, old fashioned, old hat, old world, out, out of date, out of fashion, outdated, outmoded, outworn, passe, passee, queen anne is dead, superannuated, unfashionable, worm-eaten), kullanılmayan (abandoned, dead, disused, idle, out of use, unappropriated, unserviceable, untapped, untravelled, unused), eskilerine oranla az gelişmiş, eski (ancient, archaic, auld, bygone, crusted, cut and dried, disused, earlier, early, erstwhile, ex, ex-, former, immemorial, late, of long standing, of old, old, old time, old timer, olden, onetime, out of date, passe, passee, previous, prior, quondam, secondhand, sometime, trite, used, vet, veteran). (various references)

Ukrainian

стертий (obliterate, smooth, worn out), напівстертий, застарілий (antiquated, antique, archaic, chronic, decrepit, demoded, fossil, fusty, inveterate, moldy, mouldy, musty, old, old fashioned, old hat, oldfangled, ole, out of date, outdated, outmoded, outworn, over age, overworn, passe, played out, rusty, superannuated, time worn, worm-eaten), атрофований (atrophic, atrophous), перестати вживати (disuse). (various references)

Vietnamese 

người cổ vật cổ, không dùng nữa (waste), cổ xưa (antiquated, archaic, pristine). (various references)

Welsh

ansathredig (uncommon, unfrequented, untrodden). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "obsolete": obsoleted, obsoletely, obsoleteness, obsoletenesses, obsoletes. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Obsolete" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: absolete, absolette, obolete, obselete, obslete, obsolate, obsolet, obsoleta, obsoleted, obsoletus, obsolite, obsolute. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: boletes, bootees.

-2 letters: betels, bolete, bootee, botels, oboles.

-3 letters: beets, belts, beset, besot, betel, blest, blets, blots, boles, bolos, bolts, boost, boots, botel, leets, lobes, lobos, loose, loots, lotos, obese, oboes, obole, obols, oleos, sleet, sotol, steel, stele, stole, stool, teels, teles, telos, toles, tools.

-4 letters: bees, beet, bels, belt, best, bets, blet, blot.

+1 letter: obsoleted, obsoletes.

+2 letters: bolometers, obsoletely.

+3 letters: blastocoele, bootleggers, cobblestone, lobectomies, obsolescent, troublesome.

+4 letters: blastocoeles, bootlessness, cobblestoned, cobblestones, obsoleteness, phlebotomies.

+5 letters: embolectomies, obsolescently, paleobotanies, timberdoodles, troublesomely.