Outmode
noun, verb ·2 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Something that is unfashionable or obsolete.
"Encouraged by, for some reason, his clanky, fire-breathing mother, Ratchet wants to take replacement parts off the market and offer expensive "upgrades" instead. The broken-down "outmodes" who cannot afford to remake themselves will be swept off the street and sent to Ma Ratchet's underground furnace."
- 1 To render (something) no longer fashionable. transitive
"Thus, in this age of ideological convergence and the outmoding of rigid doctrine, a new pragmatic [relationship] of immense importance seems to be developing here."
- 2 make unfashionable, outdated, or obsolete wordnet
Example
More examples"Thus, in this age of ideological convergence and the outmoding of rigid doctrine, a new pragmatic [relationship] of immense importance seems to be developing here."
Etymology
From out- + mode.
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