Old-fashioned vs Outmoded - What's the difference?
old-fashioned | outmoded | Related terms |
Of a thing, outdated or no longer in vogue.
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, title= Of a person, preferring the customs of earlier times.
A whiskey-based cocktail.
* 1996 , Paul F. Boller, Presidential Anecdotes (page 286)
unfashionable
obsolete
(outmode)
As adjectives the difference between old-fashioned and outmoded
is that old-fashioned is of a thing, outdated or no longer in vogue while outmoded is unfashionable.As a noun old-fashioned
is a whiskey-based cocktail.As a verb outmoded is
past tense of outmode.old-fashioned
English
Alternative forms
* old fashionedAdjective
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Usage notes
* Said of all kinds of things including words, houses, places, chimneys, character traits, cookware, education, music, or style.Noun
(wikipedia old-fashioned) (en noun)- At the end of the workday, the Trumans liked to have a cocktail before dinner. Shortly after they moved into the White House, Mrs. Truman rang for the butler, Alonzo Fields, one afternoon and ordered two old-fashioneds .
outmoded
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- His pipe was as outmoded as his ideas.
- His outmoded word processor was a heap of junk.
- His outmoded record player is now useless.