superannuated

Etymology

From the Latin superannuatus (“more than one year old”), from super (“over”) (English super-) + annus (“year”) (English annual).

adj

  1. Obsolete, antiquated.
    Your correspondent has a handful of superannuated computers lying around the home. The sprightliest of the bunch—a 400-megahertz Pentium II that came loaded with Windows NT4.0—has found a new lease on life as a Linux server. 1 June 2007, “Sledgehammers and hard drives”, in The Economist
    To call the sexual politics of Ladette to Lady old-fashioned is an understatement. It's a horrifying revival of superannuated attitudes about women dressed up as an educational excursion into young womanhood that exploits its subjects by loading them up on alcohol when the cameras are rolling. 24 March 2009, Larissa Dubecki, “Critic's view”, in The Age
    Files written fifteen or twenty years ago on superannuated computers and obsolete operating systems are for practical purposes irretrievable. 2010, Bruce Rich, To Uphold the World: A Call for a New Global Ethic from Ancient India, Beacon Press, published 2010
    The 158 was a delicate and not especially sure-handling device, but by now its engine had been modified to produce 250 horsepower, which gave it a decisive speed advantage over the superannuated old clunkers that were predominately arranged against it. 2010, Stuart Mann, Gordon Murray, Art of the Formula 1 Race Car, Motorbooks, published 2010, page 14
    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. 2014-11-06, Rob Nixon, “Naomi Klein’s ‘This Changes Everything’”, in New York Times
  2. Retired or discarded due to age.
    I have known a great deal of the trouble of annuities; for my mother was clogged with the payment of three to old superannuated servants by my father’s will, and it is amazing how disagreeable she found it. 1811, Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility, Chapter 2

verb

  1. simple past and past participle of superannuate

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