obsolete term
Word no longer used
An obsolete term is a word or phrase no longer in active use, preserved mainly in historical texts or specialized contexts.
Dictionaries mark such terms to signal that while readers may encounter them in older writing, they would sound archaic or incomprehensible in contemporary speech: The obsolete term "forsooth" appears throughout Shakespeare.
- archaicBelonging to earlier times
- dead languageTongue no longer spoken natively
- antiquatedOld and outdated
- outdatedNo longer in use
- deprecatedFormally advised against using
defunct · disused · dated · old-fashioned · old hat · bygone · bygone era · superseded · extinct · forgotten · out of print · quaint · antique · horse and buggy · dusty · gathering dust · relic · museum piece
obsolete termneologism
Newly created expression
buzzword · coinage · new word · nonce word · living language
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