Superannuated

Definition: Superannuated

Superannuated

Adjective

1. Discharged as too old for use or work; especially with a pension; "a superannuated civil servant".

2. Too old to be useful; "He left the house...for the support of twelve superannuated wool carders"- Anthony Trollope.

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 Old; no longer in use or valid or fashionable; "obsolete words"; "an obsolete locomotive"; "outdated equipment"; "superannuated laws"; "out-of-date ideas".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "superannuated" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Synonyms: Superannuated

Age

Adjective: aged; old; elderly, geriatric, senile; matronly, anile; in years; ripe, mellow, run to seed, declining, waning, past one's prime; gray, gray-headed; hoar, hoary; venerable, time-worn, antiquated, passe, effete, decrepit, superannuated; advanced in life, advanced in years; stricken in years; wrinkled, marked withthe crow's foot; having one foot in the grave; doting; (imbecile); like the last of pea time.

Crosswords: Superannuated

In conclusion, this quarter, which was rather superannuated than ancient, from that time began to undergo a transformation.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Albanian

i vjetruar (antiquated, back number, dated, decrepit, dilapidated, disreputable, fusty, moldy, moth-eaten, mouldy, napless, obsolete, old hat, out of date, outdated, outworn, overage, rusty, seasoned, second hand, threadbare, time worn, worm-eaten), i vjetër (ancient, antique, long ago, long standing, moss-grown, old, olden, passe, primitive, shabby, used). (various references)

Arabic 

‏متقاعد (retired), ‏عتيق (age-old, ancient, fossil, hoary, musty, old, old fashioned, out of date, passe, prim, time honored, time worn, used). (various references)

Bulgarian 

остарял (antiquated, dated, dead, extinct, grown old, hoary, moldy, moss-grown, mouldy, musty, obsolete, old, out of date, outdated, outworn, passe, played out, prehistoric, primitive, rusty, worm-eaten), престарял, изостанал от времето си. (various references)

Czech

zastaralý (antiquated, antique, archaic, inveterate, moss-grown, obsolete, out of date, outdated), přestárlý. (various references)

Finnish

yli-ikäinen (above the prescribed age, over age). (various references)

French

suranné, retraité, démodé. (various references)

German

pensionierte (retired). (various references)

Greek 

υπεργηρώσ (very old), υπερβάσ το όριο τησ ηλικίασ. (various references)

Hungarian

kiöregedett (stiff), nyugalmazott, kivénhedt (broken-down-looking), kiérdemesült. (various references)

Italian

passato di moda (old fashioned, out of fashion, outmoded), antiquato (antiquated, bygone, obsolescent, obsolete, old fashioned, oldfangled, outdated, outmoded, quaint, rusty, Square, stuffy). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

老朽 (decrepitude). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ろうきゅう (basketball, decrepitude). (various references)

Pig Latin

uperannuatedsay

Portuguese

velho (aged, ancient, antiquated, antique, elderly, graybeard, hunker, old, old man, olden, shabby, stale, threadbare, trite, worm-eaten), fora de moda (archaic, behindhand, obsolete, old, old-fangled, old-fashioned, out of fashion, outdated, outmoded, out-of-date, passe, square-toed, unfashionable), aposentado (ex-service, pensioner, retired, retired person, retiree, withdrawn), antiquado (ancient, antiquated, antique, moth-eaten, obsolete, old, old-fashioned, out of use, outdated, outmoded, out-of-date, outworn, passe, rococo, unfashionable, worm-eaten). (various references)

Romanian

vechi (ancient, antique, back, decrepit, grey headed, Hoar, inveterate, old, quondam, stale, time worn, used), perimat (antiquated, stale), pensionat (emeritus, Pensionary, retiring), anacronic (anachronic, anachronistic, outdated), învechit (antediluvian, antiquated, back, crusted, dated, disused, grey headed, inveterate, lapsed, musty, obsolescent, obsolete, old, old fashioned, out of date, outdated, outworn, passe, rusty, stale, threadbare). (various references)

Russian 

вышедший на пенсию, престарелый (advanced in years). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zastareo (anachronistic, antiquated, expired, moss-grown, obsolete, old fashioned, out of date, outdated), penzionisan zbog starosti. (various references)

Spanish

jubilado (emeritus, Jubilate, Pensionary, ret., retired, retiree, senior citizen), anticuado (ancient, antediluvian, antiquated, antique, dated, dead, obsolete, old fashioned, oldfangled, oldfashioned, out of date, outdated, outmoded, Square, timeworn, uncool). (various references)

Swedish

gammalmodig (antiquated, antique, dated, dowdy, fusty, obsolete, old fashioned, old-fangled, old-fashioned, out of date, out of fashion, quaint, Square), överårig (over age, overage). (various references)

Thai

ล้าสมัย (archaic, dowdy, old-world, out-of-date). (various references)

Turkish

yaşlılıktan emekli edilmiş, modası geçmiş (antiquated, archaic, corny, demode, demoded, fogeyish, fogyish, fusty, moss-grown, obsolete, old fashioned, old hat, old world, out, out of date, out of fashion, outdated, outmoded, outworn, passe, passee, queen anne is dead, unfashionable, worm-eaten), eskimiş (dated, decrepit, detrited, effete, moss-grown, obsolescent, old, out, outworn, rusty, shiny, stale, timeworn, well worn, worm-eaten, worn, worn out), eski kafalı (conservative, fogeyish, fogyish, fossil, fuddy-duddy, fusty, grubby, narrow minded, old fashioned, old fogeyish, old fogyish, square-toed), emekli (old age pensioner, pensioner, retired, retiring). (various references)

Ukrainian

старий (advanced, aged, age-old, ancient, auld, back, decrepit, dilapidated, grey headed, hoary, moth-eaten, old, old-aged, olden, ole, used), застарілий (antiquated, antique, archaic, chronic, decrepit, demoded, fossil, fusty, inveterate, moldy, mouldy, musty, obsolete, old, old fashioned, old hat, oldfangled, ole, out of date, outdated, outmoded, outworn, over age, overworn, passe, played out, rusty, time worn, worm-eaten). (various references)

Vietnamese 

quá hạn quá cũ kỹ, quá gi� nua, cổ lỗ. (various references)

super. (various references)

superannuatus. (various references)

Misspellings

"Superannuated" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: supeannuated, superannutate. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: superannuate.

-2 letters: unseparated.

-3 letters: underpants, unparented.

-4 letters: asperated, denatures, depurates, nauseated, sauntered, separated, tapenades, trapanned, trepanned, undereats, untenured.

-5 letters: adapters, andantes, arsenate, asperate, daunters, denature, dentures, depurate, ensnared, nauseant, nauseate, pandanus, panduras, parented, pastured, pederast, pendants, pendents, pennated, pentanes, persuade, predates, pretends, pursuant, readapts, repasted, sauterne, sederunt, separate, serenata, tapenade, transude, trapesed, underate, undereat, undersea.