démodé

Borrowed from French démodé.

• IPA^(key): /ˌdeɪməʊˈdeɪ/

démodé (comparative more démodé, superlative most démodé)

1. Outdated, old-fashioned.

   Synonyms: old-hat, passé, unchic; see also Thesaurus:unfashionable

   • 1903, Henry Austin Dobson, Fanny Burney‎^[1]:

     If, in the foregoing rapid summary, it has not always been possible to speak with uniform gravity, it is that, to-day, the main issue of Cecilia’s story has become—as the author’s own Captain Aresby would now have said—a little démodé.

   • 1914, A. A. Milne, “Merely Players”, in Once a Week:

     “And the Vicar's wife too. Dear, all this is weeks and weeks old; I suppose it has only just reached the Vicarage. Do let us be up-to-date. Physical culture has been quite démodé since last Thursday.”

   • 2021 November 17, “Open Access: Stumbling blocks to attracting more passengers”, in RAIL, number 944, page 65:

     Leisure travel will have to rescue the railways because commuting is becoming démodé and viewed with suspicion/mistrust by modern-day employees.

• “démodé”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

• demoed

From démoder (“to go out of fashion”).

• IPA^(key): /de.mɔ.de/

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• Homophones: démodée, démodées, démoder, démodés, démodez
• Rhymes: -e

démodé (feminine démodée, masculine plural démodés, feminine plural démodées)

1. old-fashioned; outdated

   Synonyms: passé de mode, rétro, suranné, vieillot

• → English: démodé
• → Italian: démodé
• → Persian: دمده
• → Portuguese: demodê
• → Romanian: demodat
• → Serbo-Croatian: demode
• → Spanish: demodé
• → Turkish: demode

démodé (feminine démodée, masculine plural démodés, feminine plural démodées)

1. past participle of démoder

• “démodé”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from French démodé.

démodé (invariable)

1. old-fashioned, out-of-date

Unadapted borrowing from French démodé.

• Hyphenation: dé‧mo‧dé

démodé (feminine démodée, masculine plural démodés, feminine plural démodées)

1. alternative spelling of demodê