demoded

[ dee-moh-did ]

adjective

1. out of date; outmoded.

Word History and Origins

Origin of demoded¹

1885–90; partial translation of French démodé

Example Sentences

He had carried this innocent precision, these dainty demoded cusps, through misery and passion to old age.

From Literature

It was indeed so perfectly in the fashion of its time, as to be inevitably demoded after a lapse of years.

From Project Gutenberg

Everything she saw was evidence of the demoded prison conditions that a twentieth century government tolerates.

From Time Magazine Archive

It has bits of soliloquies and other dodges of technique now demoded.

From Project Gutenberg

He vegetated, superfluous and demoded, in a society which insisted that for its amusement the holy place be turned into a concert hall.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• ancient
• antique
• archaic
• corny
• dated
• odd
• old
• old-time
• outdated
• outmoded
• primitive