dated
/ˈdeɪtɪd/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.29 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
adj
Anachronistic; being obviously inappropriate for its present context.
adj
verb
simple past and past participle of date
Example Sentences
- "The first dated entry in the diary was from October 1922."
- ""Omnibus" is a dated term for a bus."
- "Calling a happy person gay seems awfully dated nowadays; people will assume you mean something else."
- "[She] changed the subject to Sex and the City reruns and how hopelessly dated they seem. “Miranda meets Steve at a bar,” she said, in a tone suggesting that the scenario might as well be out of a Jane Austen novel, for all the relevance it had to her life."
- "Slang can become dated very quickly."
- "Then ſtrike vp Drum, and al the ſtarres that make The loathſome Circle of my dated life, Direct my weapon to his barbarous heart, That thus oppoſeth him againſt the Gods, And ſcornes the Powers that gouerne Perſea."
Usage
Inflected Forms
more dated (comparative)
most dated (superlative)