OBSOLETE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does obsolete mean? 

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

1. no longer in use

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• OBSOLETE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

No longer in use

Synonyms:

disused; obsolete

Context example:

obsolete words

Similar:

noncurrent (not current or belonging to the present time)

Derivation:

obsoleteness (the property of being out of date and not current)

 Context examples 

An obsolete term referring to Hodgkin lymphoma.

(Hodgkin's Granuloma, NCI Thesaurus)

An obsolete term referring to hemangiopericytoma of the central nervous system.

(Hemangioblastic Meningioma, NCI Thesaurus)

An obsolete term referring to desmoplastic medulloblastoma.

(Cerebellar Sarcoma, NCI Thesaurus)

“Mr. Wickfield is, I dare say, a man of very excellent intentions; but he is—in short, he is obsolete.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

An obsolete term referring to neoplasms arising from oligodendrocytes.

(Oligodendroblastoma, NCI Thesaurus)

An obsolete concept, historically used for childhood mental disorders thought to be a form of schizophrenia.

(Childhood Schizophrenia, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

The smith, on the other hand, assumed the obsolete attitude which Humphries and Mendoza introduced, but which had not for ten years been seen in a first-class battle.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A generally obsolete unit of length used in French speaking countries, equal to 1/12 pouce or 1/40 inch and corresponding closely to the English line.

(Ligne, NCI Thesaurus)

Lap, in the old obsolete language, signifies high; and untuh, a governor; from which they say, by corruption, was derived Laputa, from Lapuntuh.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

But with this, neither the author nor the public have any other concern than as some observation is necessary upon those parts of the work which thirteen years have made comparatively obsolete.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)