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[ US /ˈɑbsəˌɫit, ˌɑbsəˈɫit/ ]
[ UK /ˈɒbsəlˌiːt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. no longer in use
    obsolete words
    obsolete words

How To Use obsolete In A Sentence

  • It was the least encumbered of all the tenures with obsolete and burdensome features, reminiscent of an older day, when land-holding involved public rights and duties as well as private rights of ownership.
  • Industry pundits claim the existence of such offers renders pay-as-you-go deals obsolete. Times, Sunday Times
  • Apparently the delay is due to some of the components being ancient and obsolete (dating back as far as 1999).
  • Upon all vegetable lakes, except those of madder, they have a destructive effect; and are injurious to gamboge, as well as to those almost obsolete pigments, red and orange leads, king's and patent yellow, massicot, and orpiment. Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
  • There is the inevitable small, unvisited museum, with its obsolete heavy American machine guns and twisted bits of aeroplane.
  • The same factors that made hardware-centric database machines obsolete in favor of portable database software are now at play in the storage market.
  • They are now convinced that the pure jet transport can not only be favourably compared with the latest conventional reciprocating and propjet types, but actually make them look almost obsolete. The Aircraft Industry in Canada and the Future Development of Jet Engines
  • It's an examination of a world that the march of civilisation should have rendered obsolete years ago. Times, Sunday Times
  • The company is filled with superb technologists who are prepared to obsolete products in their prime and to churn out new ones with clockwork regularity.
  • Not only did sanatoriums close, but also therapeutic mainstays like pneumothorax and pneumoperitoneum became obsolete, and surgical procedures such as thoracoplasty and the surgeons who did them disappeared.
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