In Europe it’s too dreary—the sapience, the solemnity, the false respectability, the verbosity, the long disquisitions on superannuated subjects.
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Superannuated
//ˌsupɚˈænjuˌeɪtɪd//
Synonyms for "superannuated" (121 found)
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Closest matches (25)
Strong matches (36)
Related words (60)
Adjective(26 words)
obsoleteof a certain ageoldold as methuselahold schoolold-fashionedoldfangledon in yearsossifiedout of dateout of fashionoutdatedoutmodedoutwornover the hillparachronisticpassépreservedseniorsilver-haired
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Adjective(6 words)
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1 entriesetymologically related_to
2 entriesform of
1 entriesrelated to
4 entriessimilar
3 entriesTranslations
22 translations across 7 languages.
Dutch
4 entries- afgedankt adj (retired or discarded due to age)
- gepensioneerd adj (retired or discarded due to age)
- obsoleet adj (obsolete, antiquated)
- verouderd adj (obsolete, antiquated)
Finnish
3 entries- vanhanaikainen adj (obsolete, antiquated)
- vanhentunut adj (obsolete, antiquated)
- yli-ikäinen adj (obsolete, antiquated)
French
4 entries- dépassé adj (obsolete, antiquated)
- licencié adj (retired or discarded due to age)
- obsolète adj (obsolete, antiquated)
- pensionné adj (retired or discarded due to age)
German
3 entries- pensioniert adj (retired or discarded due to age)
- veraltet adj (obsolete, antiquated)
- veraltet adj (retired or discarded due to age)
Hungarian
4 entries- elévült adj (obsolete, antiquated)
- kiselejtezett adj (retired or discarded due to age)
- kiöregedett adj (obsolete, antiquated)
- nyugalmazott adj (retired or discarded due to age)
Portuguese
3 entries- antiquado adj (obsolete, antiquated)
- aposentado adj (retired or discarded due to age)
- obsoleto adj (obsolete, antiquated)
Russian
1 entries- устаре́вший adj (obsolete, antiquated)
Sample sentences
9 total sentences available.
The above, appearing in a publication now long ago superannuated and forgotten, is all that hitherto has stood in human record to attest what manner of men respectively were John Claggart and Billy Budd.
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Your correspondent has a handful of superannuated computers lying around the home. The sprightliest of the bunch—a 400-megahertz Pentium II that came loaded with Windows NT4.0—has found a new lease on life as a Linux server.
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To call the sexual politics of Ladette to Lady old-fashioned is an understatement. It's a horrifying revival of superannuated attitudes about women dressed up as an educational excursion into young womanhood that exploits its subjects by loading them up on alcohol when the cameras are rolling.
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