What does dated mean?
Dated means Marked with a date..
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/ˈdeɪtɪd/ · adjective
Marked with a date..
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.
Use dated when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Dated means Marked with a date..
Common synonyms include outdated, old-fashioned, retro, anachronous.
Possible antonyms include undated, up-to-date, current, a la mode.
The first dated entry in the diary was from October 1922.
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