demodedadj.
/(ˌ)diːˈməʊdᵻd/, /dᵻˈməʊdᵻd/, U.S. /ˌdiˈmoʊdəd/ Out of date, outmoded; passé. Cf. démodé adj.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > unaccustomedness or state of disuse > [adjective] > not practised or used > not in customary use
uncurrenta1616
unfashionable1659
out of (the) mode1664
demoded1885
dismoded1898
the world > time > relative time > the past > oldness or ancientness > [adjective] > old-fashioned or antiquated
moth-frettenOE
antiquate?a1425
antique?1532
rusty1549
moth-eaten1551
musty1575
worm-eatenc1575
overyear1584
out of date1589
old-fashioned1592
out of date1592
worm-eat1597
old-fashion1599
ancient1601
outdated1616
out-of-fashion1623
over-aged1623
superannuateda1634
thorough-old1639
overdateda1641
trunk-hosea1643
antiquitated1645
antiquated1654
out-of-fashioned1671
unmodern1731
of the old school1749
auld-farrant1750
old-fangled1764
fossila1770
fogram1772
passé1775
unmodernized1775
oxidated1791
moss-covered1792
square-toeda1797
old-fashionable1807
pigtail1817
behind the times1826
slow1827
fossilized1828
rococo1836
antiquish1838
old-timey1850
out of season1850
moss-grown1851
old style1858
antiqued1859
pigtaily1859
prehistoric1859
backdated1862
played1864
fossiled1866
bygone1869
mossy-backed1870
old-worldly1878
past-time1889
outmoded1896
dated1900
brontosaurian1909
antiquey1926
horse-and-buggy1926
vintage1928
Neolithic1934
time-warped1938
demoded1941
steam age1941
hairy1946
old school1946
rinky-dink1946
time warp1954
Palaeolithic1957
retardataire1958
throwback1968
wally1969
antwacky1975
1885 A. Shiell Undelivered Polit. Addr. 11 The discontinuance of the demoded debate upon the address, that now wastes so much precious time at the beginning of the session.
1887 Temple Bar Mar. 436 Despite its demoded raging Romanticism.
1941 E. Linklater Man on my Back xi. 149 A large hearty Frenchman..who retained..an impressive use of ‘Quite!’ and ‘Awfully’, and the demoded encomium ‘Perfectly good’.
1998 Harper's Mag. May 66/1 Politics..ceases to be a matter of right or left, Conservative or Democrat. Confrontation is demoded.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.1885