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Adjective edit · (of words, equipment, etc.) No longer in use; gone into disuse; disused or neglected (often in favour of something newer). synonyms △ ...
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A fossil word is a word that is broadly obsolete but remains in current use due to its presence within an idiom or phrase. An example for a word sense is ...
Obsolescence is the process of becoming antiquated, out of date, old-fashioned, no longer in general use, or no longer useful, or the condition of being in ...
The labels "obsolete", "archaic", "dated" and so forth concern the term itself. It is important to distinguish these labels from the "historical" label, which ...
7 days ago · Synonyms ... old, ancient, venerable, antique, antiquated, archaic, obsolete mean having come into existence or use in the more or less distant ...
An unpaired word is one that, according to the usual rules of the language, would appear to have a related word but does not. Such words usually have a ...
This is a category for the many historical medical terms which are no longer used in current medical and psychiatric terminology.
A fossil word is a word that isn't used anymore except in one idiom or phrase. Examples change. fro in "to and fro"; helter skelter; riddance in "good ...