dated
adjectiveverbcommon in dialogue
- //ˈdeɪtɪd//
Marked with a date.
adjective
- 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Outdated.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.
- 4
No longer fashionable.
Slang can become dated very quickly.
- 5
obsoleteAlotted a span of days.
Then ſtrike vp Drum, and al the ſtarres that make The loathſome Circle of my dated life, Direct my weapon to his barbarous heart, That thus oppoſeth him againſt the Gods, And ſcornes the Powers that gouerne Perſea.
verb
- 1
Also a form of datesimple past and past participle of date
Forms
- comparative
- more dated
- superlative
- most dated