Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdeɪtɪd/Category:English 2-syllable words#DATEDCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#DATED

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• Rhymes: -eɪtɪdCategory:Rhymes:English/eɪtɪd#DATEDCategory:Rhymes:English/eɪtɪd/2 syllables#DATED

Adjective

dated (comparative more dated, superlative most dated)Category:English lemmas#DATEDCategory:English adjectives#DATEDCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#DATEDCategory:Pages with entries#DATEDCategory:Pages with 1 entry#DATED

1. Marked with a date.

   The first dated entry in the diary was from October 1922.Category:English terms with usage examples#DATED

2. Outdated.

   "Omnibus" is a dated term for a bus.Category:English terms with usage examples#DATED

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.Category:English terms with usage examples#DATED

   • 2018 November 13, Kate Julian, “Why Are Young People Having So Little Sex?”, in The Atlantic‎:

     [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 all the relevance it had to her life.

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4. No longer fashionable.

   Slang can become dated very quickly.Category:English terms with usage examples#DATED

5. (obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#DATED) Alotted a span of days.
   • c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene vi:

     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.

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Verb

datedCategory:English non-lemma forms#DATEDCategory:English verb forms#DATEDCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#DATEDCategory:Pages with entries#DATEDCategory:Pages with 1 entry#DATED

1. simple past and past participle of date