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earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius;<br />

• (outmoded)- gone out of style; no longer fashionable, ( ,<br />

); Our power grid is outmoded, overloaded, and unable to<br />

provide the country the clean energy it needs now;<br />

• (old-fashioned)- of a style or method formerly in vogue; outdated; But it<br />

had been the very best of childhoods in the most old-fashioned sense of the<br />

word. — Consultant Care;<br />

• (old-hat)- out of fashion;<br />

• (démodé)- no longer in fashion; outmoded;<br />

• (passé)- no longer fashionable, in wide use, etc.; out-of-date; outmoded,<br />

( / , , , ); All these facts and<br />

arguments have been advanced at length, and are by now passé;<br />

• (quaint)- having an old-fashioned attractiveness or charm; oddly<br />

picturesque, ( ; ); How quaint was the<br />

superscription, how eloquent the distant dates of the postmarks! — Through<br />

stained glass;<br />

• (hoary)- gray or white with age, ( ); When<br />

the hoary-headed man beheld Perceval approaching, he arose and went into<br />

the castle. — The Age of Fable;<br />

• (obsolete)- no longer in general use; fallen into disuse, ( ;<br />

); Technological advances have made bows and arrows<br />

weapons obsolete, the British colonies strive for independence, and major<br />

empires approach their inevitable collapse;<br />

• (superannuated)- retired because of age or infirmity; They are fast<br />

becoming superannuated, and the "venom of their spleen" will perish with<br />

them. — Memories of Hawthorne;<br />

• too old for use, work, service, or a position;<br />

• (defunct)- no longer in effect or use; not operating or functioning, ( ;<br />

; ); In 1377 he was granted the lands and tenements of Simon<br />

Raunville, defunct, and the marriage of his heiress to Ralph, son of Walter<br />

Whithors. — Chaucer's Official Life;<br />

• (yore)- Chiefly Literary. time past, ( ); In times of yore, the Linux<br />

boot sequence scrolled pages of text up the screen - Internet;<br />

• (stodgy)- heavy, dull, or uninteresting; tediously commonplace; boring,<br />

(( ) ; ( ) ;<br />

already full;<br />

); stodgy food; a stodgy pudding served up when everyone was

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