Outmoded vs Customary - What's the difference?
outmoded | customary | Related terms |
unfashionable
obsolete
(outmode)
A book containing laws and usages, or customs; a custumal.
Agreeing with, or established by, custom; established by common usage; conventional; habitual.
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*:At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
Holding or held by custom; as, customary tenants; customary service or estate.
*1777 , Joseph Nicolson and Richard Burn, The history and antiquities of the counties of Westmorland and Cumberland
*:The tenants are chiefly customary and heriotable.
Outmoded is a related term of customary.
As adjectives the difference between outmoded and customary
is that outmoded is unfashionable while customary is agreeing with, or established by, custom; established by common usage; conventional; habitual.As a verb outmoded
is (outmode).As a noun customary is
a book containing laws and usages, or customs; a custumal.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.