dated

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdeɪtɪd/

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• Rhymes: -eɪtɪd

Adjective

dated (comparative more dated, superlative most dated)

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 Outdated.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.

   • 2018 November 13, Kate Julian, “Why Are Young People Having So Little Sex?”, in The Atlantic‎^[1]:

     [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. (obsolete) Alotted a span of days.
   • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene vi:

     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.

Synonyms

• (marked with a date):
• (out of date, old): outdated, old-fashioned, retro; see also Thesaurus:obsolete
• (anachronistic): anachronous; see also Thesaurus:anachronistic
• (no longer fashionable): démodé, old hat; see also Thesaurus:unfashionable

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “marked with a date”): undated
• (antonym(s) of “out of date, old”): up-to-date, current
• (antonym(s) of “anachronistic”):
• (antonym(s) of “no longer fashionable”): a la mode, trendy; see also Thesaurus:fashionable

Derived terms

• afterdated
• datedly
• datedness
• nondated
• short-dated

Translations

marked with a date

• Bulgarian: дати́ран (bg) (datíran)
• Danish: dateret
• Estonian: dateeritud
• Finnish: päivätty (fi)
• French: daté (fr)
• Galician: datado m
• Georgian: დათარიღებული (datariɣebuli)
• German: datiert (de)
• Hungarian: keltezett (hu), keltezéssel ellátott, (of … date) keltezésű (hu)
• Macedonian: дати́ран m (datíran)
• Norwegian: datert (no)
• Portuguese: datado (pt) m
• Russian: дати́рованный (ru) (datírovannyj)
• Slovak: datovaný m
• Spanish: fechado (es)
• Welsh: dyddiedig (cy)

out of date

• Belarusian: пастарэ́лы (pastarély), устарэ́лы (ustarély)
• Bulgarian: остаря́л (bg) (ostarjál), отживя́л (bg) (otživjál), старомо́ден (bg) (staromóden)
• Danish: forældet (da), ugyldig (da)
• Estonian: aegunud, vana (et)
• Finnish: vanhahtava (fi)
• French: démodé (fr), vieilli (fr)
• Georgian: მოძველებული (moʒvelebuli)
• German: veraltet (de)
• Hungarian: elavulóban lévő, (kissé (hu)) elavult (hu), avítt (hu)
• Indonesian: usang (id)
• Macedonian: застарен m (zastaren)
• Norwegian: foreldet (no), utdatert
• Portuguese: datado (pt) m
• Russian: устаре́вший (ru) (ustarévšij), старомо́дный (ru) (staromódnyj) (old-fashioned)
• Slovak: zastaraný (sk) m, neaktuálny m
• Spanish: anticuado (es), obsoleto (es)
• Ukrainian: поста́рі́лий (postárílyj)

anachronistic

• Danish: anakronistisk
• French: anachronique (fr)
• Georgian: ანაქრონისტული (anakronisṭuli), ანაქრონული (anakronuli)
• German: veraltet (de), anachronistisch (de), (wie) aus der Zeit gefallen
• Portuguese: datado (pt) m, obsoleto (pt)
• Russian: анахрони́ческий (ru) (anaxroníčeskij), анахрони́чный (ru) (anaxroníčnyj)
• Slovak: anachronický m, prestárnutý m
• Spanish: desusado (es)
• Swedish: gammalmodig (sv)

no longer fashionable

• Bulgarian: старомоден (bg) (staromoden)
• Czech: zastaralý (cs)
• Danish: umoderne (da), udgået
• French: démodé (fr)
• Georgian: დრომოჭმული (dromoč̣muli), მოძველებული (moʒvelebuli)
• German: unmordern, unmodisch, altmodisch (de)
• Hungarian: avíttas, régimódi (hu), idejétmúlt (hu)
• Indonesian: basi (id)
• Norwegian: umoderne, utgått (no), utdatert
• Portuguese: datado (pt) m, antiquado (pt) m
• Russian: старомо́дный (ru) (staromódnyj), устаре́лый (ru) (ustarélyj), устаре́вший (ru) (ustarévšij)
• Slovak: staromódny (sk) m
• Spanish: pasado de moda (es)
• Swedish: föråldrad (sv), gammalmodig (sv)

Verb

dated

1. simple past and past participle of date