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an·ti·quat·ed  (nt-kwtd)
adj.
1. Too old to be fashionable, suitable, or useful; outmoded. See Synonyms at old.
2. Very old; aged: "The antiquated Earth, as one might say,/Beat like the heart of Man" (William Wordsworth).

anti·quated·ness n.

antiquated [ˈæntɪˌkweɪtɪd]
adj
1. outmoded; obsolete
2. aged; ancient
antiquatedness  n
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.antiquatedantiquated - so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period; "a ramshackle antediluvian tenement"; "antediluvian ideas"; "archaic laws"
old - of long duration; not new; "old tradition"; "old house"; "old wine"; "old country"; "old friendships"; "old money"

antiquated
adjective obsolete, old, aged, ancient, antique, old-fashioned, elderly, dated, past it (informal), out-of-date, archaic, outmoded, passé, old hat, hoary, superannuated, antediluvian, outworn, cobwebby, old as the hills The factory is so antiquated, it isn't worth saving.
new, young, the new, French, current, modern, fresh, fashionable, stylish, up-to-date, state-of-the-art, modish, culty du jour all-singing, all-dancing
Translations
antiquated [ˈæntɪkweɪtɪd] ADJ (pej) → anticuado
antiquated [ˈæntɪkweɪtɪd] adj [system] → désuet/ète; [equipment] → vétuste
antiquated
adjantiquiert; machines, ideas alsoüberholt; institutions alsoveraltet
antiquated [ˈæntɪkweɪtɪd] adj (pej) → antiquato/a, sorpassato/a


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He soon appeared before the city with a corps of ten thousand troops, and finding it a fit occasion, as he had secretly intended from the beginning, to revive an antiquated claim, on the pretext that his ancestors had suffered the place to be dismembered from his territory,[1] he took possession of it in his own name, disarmed, and punished the inhabitants, and reannexed the city to his domains.
Its surface is dotted all over with little conical prominences, looking not unlike the knobs, on an antiquated church door.
It was by this well that Jesus sat and talked with a woman of that strange, antiquated Samaritan community I have been speaking of, and told her of the mysterious water of life.
 
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