démodé
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Englisch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]démodé (comparative more démodé, superlative most démodé)
- Outdated, old-fashioned.
- Synonyms: old-hat, passé, unchic; see also Thesaurus:unfashionable
- 1903, Henry Austin Dobson, Fanny Burney[1]:
- If, in the foregoing rapid summary, it has not always been possible to speak with uniform gravity, it is that, to-day, the main issue of Cecilia’s story has become—as the author’s own Captain Aresby would now have said—a little démodé.
- 1914, A. A. Milne, “Merely Players”, in Once a Week:
- “And the Vicar's wife too. Dear, all this is weeks and weeks old; I suppose it has only just reached the Vicarage. Do let us be up-to-date. Physical culture has been quite démodé since last Thursday.”
- 2021 November 17, “Open Access: Stumbling blocks to attracting more passengers”, in RAIL, number 944, page 65:
- Leisure travel will have to rescue the railways because commuting is becoming démodé and viewed with suspicion/mistrust by modern-day employees.
References
[edit]- “démodé”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Anagrams
[edit]French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From démoder (“to go out of fashion”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /de.mɔ.de/
Audio (Switzerland): (file) - Homophones: démodée, démodées, démoder, démodés, démodez
- Rhymes: -e
Adjective
[edit]démodé (feminine démodée, masculine plural démodés, feminine plural démodées)
- old-fashioned; outdated
- Synonyms: passé de mode, rétro, suranné, vieillot
Descendants
[edit]- → English: démodé
- → Italian: démodé
- → Persian: دمده
- → Portuguese: demodê
- → Romanian: demodat
- → Serbo-Croatian: demode
- → Spanish: demodé
- → Turkish: demode
Participle
[edit]démodé (feminine démodée, masculine plural démodés, feminine plural démodées)
Further reading
[edit]- “démodé”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]démodé (invariable)
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from French démodé.
Pronunciation
[edit]
- Hyphenation: dé‧mo‧dé
Adjective
[edit]démodé (feminine démodée, masculine plural démodés, feminine plural démodées)
- Alternative spelling of demodê
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