dated

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 Outdated.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...
  4. No longer fashionable.
    • Slang can become dated very quickly.
  5. Alotted 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. - c....

Forms

more dated most dated

Synonyms

outdated old-fashioned retro anachronous démodé old hat

Antonyms

undated up-to-date current a la mode trendy

Derived

afterdated datedly datedness nondated short-dated

Verb

  1. simple past and past participle of date