Obsolete is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for OBSOLETE in dictionary:

VERB:
• to make or consider as obsolete
• cause (a product or idea) to become obsolete by replacing it with something new
• To become obsolete; to go out of use.
• make obsolete
ADJECTIVE:
• outmoded
• no longer produced or used; out of date
• (of a part or characteristic of an organism) less developed than formerly or in a related species; rudimentary; vestigial.
• no longer in use
• No longer in use; gone into disuse; disused; neglected; as, an obsolete word; an obsolete statute; -- applied chiefly to words, writings, or observances.
• Not very distinct; obscure; rudimental; imperfectly developed; abortive.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to make out-of-date

Words related to OBSOLETE

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Words that contain OBSOLETE

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How to use OBSOLETE in a sentence

• The fort itself was a perfect picture of the obsolete and out-of-date.
• It readily discovers the obsolete features in existing machines, features that were required in other days but have no use now.
• Fleming, the obsolete author, who has so suddenly revived in the public esteem, than we have in many other interpreters of prophecy.
• It is hopeless to try to create new popular epithets, or even to revive those which are thoroughly obsolete.
• All old books contain a greater or less number of obsolete words, and antiquated modes of expression, which puzzle the reader, and call him too frequently to his glossary.
• But it was linked to a forgotten literature and an obsolete dialect, and was doomed to give way.
• It was a formidable defense at one time, and has been the scene of much exciting history, but is obsolete now.
• That though obsolete, is the classical pronunciation.
• Their attack was directed no less against the revival of really obsolete words.
• She was yet to learn that she could not force obsolete customs upon a girl who had lived for sixteen years in the sunlight of modern ideas.
• Obsolete words are admitted, when they are found in authors not obsolete, or when they have any force or beauty that may deserve revival.
• I fear that the oar, as a working implement, will become presently as obsolete as the sail.
• I said above that Fiesole was the mother of Florence, and, in spite of formal objections to the contrary, I venture to defend that now somewhat obsolete and heretical opinion.
• This instrument became obsolete toward the end of the eighteenth century.
• This usage became almost, if not quite, obsolete except at Christmastide.
• This style of faith prevailed for a vast period, and is not yet obsolete.
• The bloody feuds of old times, which ran down the veins of successive generations like streams of fire, have become nearly obsolete.
• But for that very reason the combination very soon, comparatively speaking, became obsolete or lost its power to influence.
• The inhabitants preserve a distinctive but almost obsolete costume, with a curious head-dress.
• In June, 1680, de Grammont, with an obsolete commission and a small party of men, made a brilliant night assault on La Guayra, the seaport of Caracas.
• Little therefore did it avail this wonderful lady to be received, however joyfully, with such obsolete and barren ceremonies of praise.
• Secondly he held that our education through intellectual illusions is a progressive education, and that to seek to live in an obsolete illusion is treason against humanity.
• But the statutes of Trinity College, Cambridge, contain more remarkable rules, which are in theory still valid, although obsolete in fact.
• Incorporated into a design that calls for them, traditional forms cease to be incongruous, as words that still have a felt meaning may be old without being obsolete.
• The northern speech is therefore not barbarous, but obsolete.
• What the more modern experimental psychology has established must be utilized in the school, at the expense of the more obsolete and traditional.
• Many formerly employed have become in great measure obsolete, while others have been locally introduced.
• Many of these games became obsolete in course of time, and new ones were invented.
• This somewhat obsolete way of doing things was by the express desire of Sir Roger, and on the morrow they were to start by steamer for the old land.
• This traditional system of pronunciation is now rapidly becoming obsolete, and for very good reasons.

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