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Superannuated

//ˌsupɚˈænjuˌeɪtɪd// adj, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Obsolete, antiquated.

    "In Europe it’s too dreary—the sapience, the solemnity, the false respectability, the verbosity, the long disquisitions on superannuated subjects."

  2. 2
    Retired or discarded due to age.

    "I have known a great deal of the trouble of annuities; for my mother was clogged with the payment of three to old superannuated servants by my father’s will, and it is amazing how disagreeable she found it."

Adjective
  1. 1
    old; no longer valid or fashionable wordnet
  2. 2
    too old to be useful wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    simple past and past participle of superannuate form-of, participle, past

Etymology

Etymology 1

From the Latin superannuatus (“more than one year old”), from super (“over”) (English super-) + annus (“year”) (English annual).

Etymology 2

From the Latin superannuatus (“more than one year old”), from super (“over”) (English super-) + annus (“year”) (English annual).

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