démodé

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See also: demode, démode, demodé, demodê, and dêmodé

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French démodé.

Pronunciation

Adjective

démodé (comparative more démodé, superlative most démodé)

  1. Outdated, old-fashioned.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.

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Anagrams

French

Etymology

From démoder (“to go out of fashion”).

Pronunciation

Adjective

démodé (feminine démodée, masculine plural démodés, feminine plural démodées)

  1. old-fashioned; outdated
    Synonyms: passé de mode, rétro, suranné, vieillot

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Participle

démodé (feminine démodée, masculine plural démodés, feminine plural démodées)

  1. past participle of démoder

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from French démodé.

Adjective

démodé (invariable)

  1. old-fashioned, out-of-date

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French démodé.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: dé‧mo‧dé

Adjective

démodé (feminine démodée, masculine plural démodés, feminine plural démodées)

  1. Alternative spelling of demodê
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