word | superannuated |
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definition | (1) Outworn, old-fashioned, or out-of-date. (2) Forced to retire because of old age or infirmity. |
eg_sentence | He called himself a car collector, but his backyard looked like a cemetery for superannuated clunkers. |
explanation | A superannuated style is out-of-date—its time has come and gone. And a person who has passed an age limit and been forced to retire may technically be called superannuated. But more often superannuated describes people who seem somehow to belong to the past. So a 55-year-old surfer might be regarded as superannuated by the young crowd riding the waves in Santa Cruz, and a superannuated hippie might still be dressing the way he did in 1972 |
IPA | superannuated* |
Tags: mwvb::unit:17, mwvb::unit:17:word, mwvb::word, mwvb::word-cloze, mwvb::word-reverse, obsidian_to_anki
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