单词	outmoded
释义	outmodedout‧mod‧ed /aʊtˈməʊdɪd $ -ˈmoʊ-/ adjective Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES outmoded economic policies The government's outmoded attitudes are dragging the whole country back into the nineteenth century. The views of many of the senior professors reflect outmoded concepts and ideas. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS Alas, the library became outmoded. By 1904, the Victorian ideal had become clearly outmoded. Clearly, before about 1880, Degas rendered all the fast equestrian positions in the already outmoded traditional way. He devised a set of heavy draft horse casting hobbles which are now outmoded but still bear his name. He had always thought of it as a superficial and outmoded gesture found only in old novels. People from the South tend to have a lot of outmoded ideas about service. The ` trendies' claim that such a view is elitist and outmoded. Though conservatives were still attempting to thwart change, he said, central planning and other outmoded Marxist practices had been scrapped. Thesaurus Longman Language Activatoropinions/methods/systems► old-fashioned old-fashioned opinions and ways of living were common in the past, but are not the way most people think and behave now: · In those days, people believed that divorce was morally wrong, but this now seems very old-fashioned.· He has some very old-fashioned ideas about women. ► outdated outdated opinions, methods, or systems are not suitable for modern times and need to be changed and made more modern: · Outdated laws and regulations are failing to keep crime on the Internet in check.· Outdated textbooks, decrepit buildings, overcrowded classrooms - the list of problems is long and growing.· The image of the civil service as a male, middle class bastion is now outdated. ► outmoded : outmoded belief/attitude/way of thinking etc a way of thinking that was once popular but is not useful or suitable anymore: · The views of many of the senior professors reflect outmoded concepts and ideas.· The government's outmoded attitudes are dragging the whole country back into the nineteenth century. ► traditional traditional opinions, methods, or customs have existed for a long time, and have not been changed or affected by modern ideas: · The local people still use traditional farming methods which have been used for hundreds of years.· the traditional idea that a woman's place is in the home· Tom went to a very traditional boys' school. ► unfashionable a belief or attitude that is unfashionable is no longer fashionable or popular: · Smoking has become very unfashionable in the last ten years.it is unfashionable to do something: · It's unfashionable these days to say you want to get married and give up your job, isn't it? no longer fashionable or useful SYN  outdated:  outmoded ideas
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