Meaning & use

obsolete

adjective·Academic

No longer in use or produced because something newer and better has replaced it.

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The company stopped making the printer because the technology had become obsolete.

Many words once common in Shakespeare's plays are now obsolete in everyday English.

A note on using this word

Obsolete implies replacement by something more advanced, whereas 'old' simply means having existed for a long time without that implication.

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