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French
Etymology
19th century, learned borrowing from Latin dēsuētus, past participle of dēsuēscere (“to unlearn, disaccustom”). The traditional pronunciation is that with /s/ because the Latin verb is from dē-suēscere, the first ⟨s⟩ being of the root. However, French-speakers tend to analyse it as dés-uet, which gives rise to the now predominant form with /z/.
Pronunciation
Adjective
désuet (feminine désuète, masculine plural désuets, feminine plural désuètes)
- obsolete, out of use, no longer in use
- Synonym: obsolète
- out of fashion, out of style, old-fashioned, passé
- Synonyms: suranné, dépassé
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