Superannuated
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˌsupɚˈænjuˌeɪtɪd/ · Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Superannuated is an adjective meaning Retired or discarded due to age.
Meaning
Retired or discarded due to age.
More Meanings
- simple past and past participle of superannuate
- Obsolete, antiquated.
Example Sentences
Files written fifteen or twenty years ago on superannuated computers and obsolete operating systems are for practical purposes irretrievable.
In Europe it’s too dreary—the sapience, the solemnity, the false respectability, the verbosity, the long disquisitions on superannuated subjects.
Klein, Monbiot and Bill McKibben all insist that we cannot avert the ecological disaster that confronts us without loosening the grip of that superannuated zombie ideology.
The above, appearing in a publication now long ago superannuated and forgotten, is all that hitherto has stood in human record to attest what manner of men respectively were John Claggart and Billy Budd.
Synonyms for superannuated
Depending on context, synonyms include archaic, dated, outdated, outmoded, anachronistic, antediluvial.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include outdated, obsolete, retired, old, overage, outmoded.
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