SUPERANNUATED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does superannuated mean? 

• SUPERANNUATED (adjective)
  The adjective SUPERANNUATED has 2 senses:

1. too old to be useful

2. old; no longer valid or fashionable

  Familiarity information: SUPERANNUATED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUPERANNUATED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Too old to be useful

Synonyms:

over-the-hill; overage; overaged; superannuated

Context example:

He left the house...for the support of twelve superannuated wool carders

Similar:

old ((used especially of persons) having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Old; no longer valid or fashionable

Synonyms:

out-of-date; outdated; superannuated

Context example:

out-of-date ideas

Similar:

noncurrent (not current or belonging to the present time)

 Context examples 

So, stifling a natural regret at the thought of the home comforts he would leave behind him, he said stoutly, Bless your soul, I'm not superannuated yet.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I have known a great deal of the trouble of annuities; for my mother was clogged with the payment of three to old superannuated servants by my father's will, and it is amazing how disagreeable she found it.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

There was a black barge, or some other kind of superannuated boat, not far off, high and dry on the ground, with an iron funnel sticking out of it for a chimney and smoking very cosily; but nothing else in the way of a habitation that was visible to me.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)