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old-fashioned
not considered modern or fashionable – used about styles of clothes, furniture etc, or about words and ideas:
• The room was full of big old-fashioned furniture. • I can’t wear that dress – it’s too old-fashioned. • He had a lot of good old-fashioned values.
out-of-date
not containing the most recent information and therefore not useful:
• This guidebook is completely out-of-date.
outdated
used about machines, equipment, or methods that are old-fashioned and have been replaced by better, more recent ones:
• In today’s world, technology rapidly becomes outdated. • The accident was blamed on an outdated rail network.
dated
used about styles etc that were fashionable until recently but now look old-fashioned:
• The pictures in this book already look a bit dated. • I liked the food but the decor in the restaurant was very dated.
unfashionable
not fashionable and not popular with people anymore:
• They lived in an unfashionable part of London. • The word ‘patriotic’ has become rather unfashionable these days.
obsolete
old-fashioned – used about machines and equipment that are no longer being produced because better ones have been invented:
• These days, you buy a computer and it’s almost immediately obsolete. • Many laboratories use obsolete equipment and do not receive enough funding.
antiquated
formal old and not suitable for modern needs and conditions:
• antiquated ideas about the constitution • an antiquated central heating system • antiquated technology
Longman-Thesaurus
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adj. VERBS be, look, seem | become | consider sth, regard sth as, see sth as Wearing a hat is regarded as rather old-fashioned nowadays. ADV. terribly, very | plain It was plain old-fashioned instinct, the gut feeling that something was wrong. | a bit, a little, rather, slightly, somewhat | curiously His clothes were curiously old-fashioned. PREP. in She's somewhat old-fashioned in her attitudes. PHRASES call me old-fashioned Call me old-fashioned, but I still believe in good manners.
Oxford Collocations Dictionary