dated

Etymology

adj

  1. Marked with a date.
    The first dated entry in the diary was from October 1922.
  2. Outdated.
    "Omnibus" is a dated term for a bus.
  3. Anachronistic; being obviously inappropriate for its present context.
    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. 2018-11-13, Kate Julian, “Why Are Young People Having So Little Sex?”, in The Atlantic
  4. No longer fashionable.
    Slang can become dated very quickly.
  5. (obsolete) Alotted a span of days.

verb

  1. simple past and past participle of date

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