Obsolete

//ɑbsəˈliːt//

Synonyms for "obsolete" (150 found)

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Closest matches (30)

Verb(1 words)
antiquate

Strong matches (45)

Adjective(1 words)
disused
Verb(1 words)
make older

Related words (75)

Verb(1 words)
mature
Prep_phrase(1 words)
on its way out

Related word relations

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9 relation types

More general

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More specific

7 entries

Synonyms

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Related terms

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derived

9 entries

etymologically related_to

1 entries

has context

2 entries

related to

7 entries

similar

2 entries

Translations

83 translations across 40 languages.

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Arabic

1 entries
  • عفا عليها الزمن adj (no longer in use)

Azerbaijani

2 entries
  • köhnə adj (no longer in use)
  • köhnəlmiş adj (no longer in use)

Breton

2 entries
  • diamzeret adj (no longer in use)
  • dispredet adj (no longer in use)

Bulgarian

2 entries
  • атрофирал adj (in biology: imperfectly developed)
  • излязъл от употреба adj (no longer in use)

Catalan

2 entries
  • obsolet adj (no longer in use)
  • rudimentari adj (in biology: imperfectly developed)

Chinese Mandarin

3 entries
  • 廢棄 /废弃 adj (no longer in use)
  • 淘汰 adj (no longer in use)
  • 過時 /过时 adj (no longer in use)

Danish

2 entries
  • forældet adj (no longer in use)
  • gået af brug adj (no longer in use)

Dutch

4 entries
  • achterhaald adj (no longer in use)
  • in onbruik adj (no longer in use)
  • rudimentair adj (in biology: imperfectly developed)
  • verouderd adj (no longer in use)

Esperanto

1 entries
  • troantikva adj (no longer in use)

Finnish

1 entries
  • vanhentunut adj (no longer in use)

French

1 entries
  • obsolète adj (no longer in use)

German

4 entries
  • alt adj (no longer in use)
  • antiquiert adj (no longer in use)
  • atroph adj (in biology: imperfectly developed)
  • obsolet adj (no longer in use)

Greek

4 entries
  • απαρχαιωμένος adj (no longer in use)
  • ξεπερασμένος adj (no longer in use)
  • παρωχημένος adj (no longer in use)
  • υποτυπώδης adj (in biology: imperfectly developed)

Hebrew

1 entries
  • מיושן adj (no longer in use)

Hindi

2 entries
  • अप्रचलित adj (no longer in use)
  • अर्धविकसित adj (in biology: imperfectly developed)

Hungarian

3 entries
  • elavult adj (no longer in use)
  • idejétmúlt adj (no longer in use)
  • ósdi adj (no longer in use)

Icelandic

1 entries
  • úreltur adj (no longer in use)

Ido

1 entries
  • obsoleta adj (no longer in use)

Indonesian

1 entries
  • usang adj (no longer in use)

Irish

1 entries
  • seanchaite adj (no longer in use)

Italian

2 entries
  • in disuso adj (no longer in use)
  • obsoleto adj (no longer in use)

Japanese

3 entries
  • 廃れた adj (no longer in use)
  • 退化した adj (in biology: imperfectly developed)
  • 廃止する verb (to cause to become obsolete)

Kazakh

2 entries
  • ескірген adj (no longer in use)
  • көнерген adj (no longer in use)

Korean

1 entries
  • 폐어 adj (no longer in use)

Latin

1 entries
  • obsolētus adj (no longer in use)

Latvian

1 entries
  • novecojis adj (no longer in use)

Māori

3 entries
  • matangarongaro adj (no longer in use)
  • tūnguru adj (no longer in use)
  • whakatūnguru verb (to cause to become obsolete)

Norwegian Bokmål

2 entries
  • foreldet adj (no longer in use)
  • forelde verb (to cause to become obsolete)

Polish

2 entries
  • przestarzały adj (no longer in use)
  • zdezaktualizowany adj (no longer in use)

Portuguese

1 entries
  • obsoleto adj (no longer in use)

Romanian

4 entries
  • desuet adj (no longer in use)
  • ieșit din uz adj (no longer in use)
  • rudimentar adj (in biology: imperfectly developed)
  • rudimentar adj (in biology: imperfectly developed)

Russian

1 entries
  • устаре́вший adj (no longer in use)

Serbo-Croatian

1 entries
  • zastario adj (no longer in use)

Spanish

2 entries
  • desusado adj (no longer in use)
  • obsoleto adj (no longer in use)

Swedish

2 entries
  • föråldrad adj (no longer in use)
  • ur bruk adj (no longer in use)

Tamil

1 entries
  • வழக்கற்றுப்போன adj (no longer in use)

Turkish

1 entries
  • eskimiş adj (no longer in use)

Vietnamese

2 entries
  • lỗi thời adj (no longer in use)
  • mai một adj (no longer in use)

Welsh

2 entries
  • anarferedig adj (no longer in use)
  • darfodedig adj (no longer in use)

Zazaki

2 entries
  • kehan (diq) adj (no longer in use)
  • verên (diq) adj (no longer in use)

Sample sentences

17 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

The obsolete regime is about to collapse.

Source: tatoeba (264154)

I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.

Source: tatoeba (437099)

"ASCII quotes" are a substitute character for the “real” quotes that vary from language to language, and the advent of Unicode have rendered ASCII quotes obsolete.

Source: tatoeba (678094)

That's an obsolete model.

Source: tatoeba (1624843)

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