The phrase "an outdated term" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a word or phrase that is no longer in common use or has fallen out of favor.
Example: "The term 'dial-up' is considered an outdated term in today's high-speed internet world."
Alternatives: "an obsolete term" or "a dated term".
Is 'middle class' an outdated term?
Fund-raisers should therefore consider whether "Chinese auction" is an outdated term.
Walsh repeated the anchor's use of an outdated term for black people and the station abruptly went to a commercial.
Robert J. Samuelson: Is the middle class moving up? Robert Gebelhoff: Is 'middle class' an outdated term?
Tobacco alcohol amblyopia is an outdated term for a rare condition characterized by visual impairment due to tobacco and alcohol abuse usually associated with nutritional deficiencies.
"These days, everyone works for a few years before they start looking for a duixiang, right?" she responded, using an outdated term for significant other.
"The Remington name is not great for jewelry, and Lady is a pretty outdated term," Mr. Kiam said.
And yes, it was somewhat of a shock to my young ears to hear someone casually use a long outdated term.
When it became public that the form uses the phrase "Black, African American, or Negro," including the outdated term "Negro" as an option for African Americans, some sectors of the community were offended because of the term's historical and often painful association with Jim Crow laws and segregation of the 1960s when the term was regularly used and accepted.
Perhaps ironically, however, the actor also came under fire for using an "outdated" racial term to describe them.
Even sophisticated young men he would meet, like Matthew Vitemb, 21, a recent graduate of Bard College (who prefers "queer" to "gay," which he considers an outdated boomer term), had never known an H.I.V.-positive person until he met Mr. Strub.
