Adjective

(en adjective)

Late; especially, past a deadline or too late to fulfill a need.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Out of the gloom , passage=[Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue . When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.}}

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Adjective

(en adjective)

Strongly disapproved of.

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Belittled; insulted

(computing) Obsolescent]]; said of a construct in a computing language considered old, and planned to be [[phase out, phased out, but still available for use.

* 2002 , Steven E. Callihan, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) by Example

Just because an element or attribute is deprecated doesn't mean that it can't be used on a webpage.

* 1999 . Raggett, Dave, et. al. HTML 4.01 Specification , Conformance: requirements and recommendations. W3C

A deprecated element or attribute is one that has been outdated by newer constructs.

Note that deprecated functions are not removed.