DATED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dated mean? 

• DATED (adjective)
  The adjective DATED has 1 sense:

1. marked by features of the immediate and usually discounted past

  Familiarity information: DATED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DATED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Marked by features of the immediate and usually discounted past

Similar:

unfashionable; unstylish (not in accord with or not following current fashion)

 Context examples 

It was dated at midnight of the preceding night and ran in this way: You really did it very well.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It is only a line dated from Castle Dracula, and says that he is just starting for home.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Using dated before-and-after images, researchers determined the timing of this activity coincided with seasonal carbon-dioxide frost and temperatures that would not have allowed for liquid water.

(NASA spacecraft observes further evidence of dry ice gullies on Mars, NASA)

The weather was fine; it was about the middle of the month of August, nearly two months after the death of Justine, that miserable epoch from which I dated all my woe.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

There were also two dress-circle tickets for the Woolwich Theatre, dated for that very evening.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was dated an hour and a half before dinner.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It was dated three years back.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

This was the letter, directed to "Charles Smith, Esq. Tunbridge Wells," and dated from London, as far back as July, 1803:—Dear Smith,—I have received yours.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

The preserved remains of the man in his forties were initially believed to be between 1,500 and 2000 years old but during the 1990s new textile and hair testing dated the skeleton at 10,600 years old.

(Ancient DNA analysis unlocks secrets of Ice Age tribes in the Americas, University of Cambridge)

Prior to this discovery, the oldest microfossils reported were found in Western Australia and dated at 3,460 million years old but some scientists think they might be non-biological artefacts in the rocks.

(World's Oldest Fossils Unearthed, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)