outmoded

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OLD-FASHIONEDno longer fashionable or useful 过时的，不再流行的；废弃的 SYN outdated

outmoded ideas

过时的观点

Examples from the Corpus

outmoded• The ` trendies' claim that such a view is elitist and outmoded.• Alas, the library became outmoded.• By 1904, the Victorian ideal had become clearly outmoded.• The government's outmoded attitudes are dragging the whole country back into the nineteenth century.• He devised a set of heavy draft horse casting hobbles which are now outmoded but still bear his name.• The views of many of the senior professors reflect outmoded concepts and ideas.• outmoded economic policies• 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.• Though conservatives were still attempting to thwart change, he said, central planning and other outmoded Marxist practices had been scrapped.• Clearly, before about 1880, Degas rendered all the fast equestrian positions in the already outmoded traditional way.

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TOEFL BNC: 18486 COCA: 17416

outmoded

Not suitable or convenient: unsuitable, inappropriate, inconvenient...

Not relevant or appropriate: irrelevant, inappropriate, unimportant...