obsolete

ob-suh-LEETadj

Meaning no longer used or useful; out of date

Memory hook OB-SO-LETE: SO OLD, it’s out. At the museum, Dev stares at a giant old radio the size of a fridge. Nobody uses one like that anymore: it is obsolete.

Grandpa still keeps his obsolete typewriter on a shelf in the den.

In context The old road map was obsolete; three highways had been built since it was printed, and the bridge it showed had been torn down years ago.

Similar outdated, outmoded, antiquated, disused

Opposite current, modern, up-to-date

From Latin obsoletus, “worn out, grown old.”

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