démodé
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌdeɪməʊˈdeɪ/
Adjective
démodé (comparative more démodé, superlative most démodé)
- Outdated, old-fashioned.
- Synonyms: old-hat, passé, unchic; see also Thesaurus:unfashionable
- 1903, Henry Austin Dobson, Fanny Burney:
- If, in the foregoing rapid summary, it has not always been possible to speak with uniform gravity, it is that, to-day, the main issue of Cecilia’s story has become—as the author’s own Captain Aresby would now have said—a little démodé.
- 1914, A. A. Milne, “Merely Players”, in Once a Week:
- “And the Vicar's wife too. Dear, all this is weeks and weeks old; I suppose it has only just reached the Vicarage. Do let us be up-to-date. Physical culture has been quite démodé since last Thursday.”
- 2021 November 17, “Open Access: Stumbling blocks to attracting more passengers”, in RAIL, number 944, page 65:
- Leisure travel will have to rescue the railways because commuting is becoming démodé and viewed with suspicion/mistrust by modern-day employees.
References
- “démodé”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Anagrams
French
Etymology
From démoder (“to go out of fashion”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
démodé (feminine démodée, masculine plural démodés, feminine plural démodées)
- old-fashioned; outdated
- Synonyms: passé de mode, rétro, suranné, vieillot
Descendants
Participle
démodé (feminine démodée, masculine plural démodés, feminine plural démodées)
- past participle of démoder
Further reading
- “démodé”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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