Word Finder - obsolete

definition

(of words, equipment, etc.) No longer in use; gone into disuse; disused or neglected (often by preference for something newer, which replaces the subject).

example

It is speculated that, within a few years, the Internet's speedy delivery of news worldwide will make newspapers obsolete.

synonyms

• antiquated
• deprecated
• disused

definition

Imperfectly developed; not very distinct.

synonyms

• abortive
• obscure
• rudimental

Then war can become obsolete, as foreign to us as slavery and public hangings.

The rate at which technology becomes obsolete continues to increase dramatically.

Sacramental confession is enjoined, but has recently become obsolete; prayers for the departed and invocation of saints form part of the services.

The company was trying to stay in the forefront of their industry by replacing all of their old and obsolete equipment.

The only way of removing the president from office is by impeachment, an institution borrowed from Great Britain, where it had not become obsolete at the time when the United States constitution was adopted.

This process is now almost obsolete.

Technological advances can render some jobs and even whole industries obsolete.

These need not detain us for long, since, however well some of them may have been executed, regard being had to their epoch, and whatever repute some of them may have achieved, they are, so far as general information and especially classification is concerned, wholly obsolete, and most of them almost useless except as matters of antiquarian interest.

In actual use, however, two letters soon became obsolete, but a number of others were added from time to time, some of which are found also on the continent, while others are peculiar to certain parts of England.

Their use is becoming obsolete.

All this jurisdiction has long been obsolete, but the court still sits occasionally for registering gifts made to the city.

Many of the wooden and iron vessels listed in the Naval Annual, 1906, though obsolete and of no value whatever as fighting machines, are used for river and harbour service, and in the suppression of trifling insurrections.

Equally obsolete is the old line of fortifications which formerly marked the limits of the city south and east and has now been partly demolished.

The break-up or sale of obsolete warships is a diminution of the paper effective of a navy, and their purchase by another state a paper increase of theirs.

Mike kept insisting his Blackberry phone was not obsolete, despite the growing evidence to the contrary.

Hundreds of millions are spent in acquiring terrible engines of destruction, which are regarded to-day as the latest inventions of science, but are destined to-morrow to be rendered obsolete by some new discovery.

In the end, violence will become obsolete.

The town is built on the south-eastern shore, and occupies a hilly site dominated by two obsolete forts.

By the First World War, military technology had made the forts obsolete.

Evaluating games under one lumped term "video games" is convenient but rapidly becoming obsolete.

In their speech several hundred words persist which elsewhere have been obsolete for three centuries or occur only in dialects in England.

In these senses the word is now obsolete.

Geforce 4Ti's are not supported and are now closer to becoming obsolete as technology improves.

While its use as a guideline has become obsolete, understanding the reasons for the "web-safe" colors gives a designer a good baseline for creating visually pleasing sites.

Her hair was drawn back severely into a bun and she had black eyes that could render a lie detector machine obsolete.

The " call-wire " system has been used to some extent, but it is now obsolete.

Intolerant reliance upon force presents greater difficulties to them; soon it grows quite obsolete.

Many of the above absolute pronouns were almost obsolete even in the Old Kingdom.

This is an old distinction, which now tends to become obsolete; but broadly speaking a larger measure of discretion is allowed in the nonregulation provinces, and the district officer may be a military officer, while in the regulation provinces he must be a member of the Indian civil service.

He's applying for a patent on a new piece of equipment that will make the way they've been operating chicken houses obsolete.

Gregory's notation is more generally used, and Scrivener's, though still followed by a few English scholars, is likely to become obsolete.

This custom has, however, as a result of the High Church movement, fallen almost completely obsolete.

The truth is that Smith took up the science when it was already considerably advanced; and it was this very circumstance which enabled him, by the production of a classical treatise, to render most of his predecessors obsolete.

The annexation by Frederick was followed by a complete reorganization ' in which the obsolete powers of the local dynasts were abolished and Silesia became a mere province of the highly centralized Prussian state.

The inhabitants preserve a distinctive but almost obsolete costume, with a curious head-dress.

Everywhere else dubbing or the accolade seems to have become obsolete, and no other species of knighthood, if knighthood it can be called, is known except that which is dependent on admission to some particular order.

Other customs, now obsolete, were formerly associated with the liturgy of this feast; e.g.

The sporophore is obsolete when the spore-bearing hyphae are not sharply distinct from the mycelium, simple when the constituent hyphae are isolated, and compound when the latter are conjoined.

He offended the states by seeking to sweep away many of their inherited privileges and to change the time-honoured, if somewhat obsolete, system of civil government.

The Mazurs are distinguished from the Poles by their lower stature, broad shoulders and massive frame, and still more by their national dress, which has nothing of the smartness of that of the southern Poles, and by their ancient customs; they have also a dialect of their own, containing many words now obsolete in Poland, and several grammatical forms bearing witness to Lithuanian influence.

A court-leet and court-baron used to be held half-yearly, but both are now obsolete.

The ancient popular assembly was almost obsolete before the 14th century.

Believers could be in no uncertainty as to which of two contradictory passages remained in force; and they might still find edification in that which had become obsolete.

On the other hand, Egyptian is certainly related to Semitic. Even before the triliterality of Old Egyptian was recognized, Erman showed that the so-called pseudoparticiple had been really in meaning and in form a precise analogue of the Semitic perfect, though its original employment was almost obsolete in the time of the earliest known texts.

By this means the bulk of the statute law was immensely reduced, its obscurities and internal discrepancies in great measure removed, its provisions adapted, by the abrogation of what was obsolete, to the circumstances of Justinian's own time.

Thus the Calvinism of the 16th and 17th centuries elaborated answers to questions, which if no attempt had been made to answer them, would have perplexed earnest souls and condemned the system; but many parts of the system are now obsolete, because the conditions which suggested the questions which they sought to answer no longer exist or have no longer any interest or importance."

He differs, of course, in holding dogma to be obsolete now.

In 1869 the governor, Sir Hercules Robinson (afterwards Lord Rosmead), obtained authority to demolish the fortifications, which were obsolete for purposes of defence, and required 6000 men to man them properly.

But Cyprian of Carthage said long ago, Consuetudo sine veritate vetustas erroris est; and the bare fact of previous existence is no argument for the re-introduction of obsolete and antiquated institutions and theories.

Moreover, he employed comparatively few obsolete inflexions, and his work no doubt furthered the adoption of the Midland dialect as the acknowledged literary instrument.