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Discover LudwigThe word "superannuated" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use the word when referring to something that is outdated or obsolete due to being too old or no longer appropriate. For example, "We had to replace our superannuated computer system with a more modern one."
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superannuated
adjective
Obsolete, antiquated.
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The make-up saleswoman has met a superannuated pop star and an Olympic swimmer.
But that misses one essential point: there is huge satisfaction to be had from salvaging superannuated gear and putting it back into productive use.
Managers who no longer have anyone to manage are fobbed off with inflated titles, much as superannuated politicians are made Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster or Lord President of the Council.
To rebut the idea that his government is superannuated, Mr Brown again invokes his globalisation motif.
At 30 the five-times singles champion, making her 14th Wimbledon appearance, counts as superannuated in women's tennis, but it would be a brave or possibly reckless punter who backed her to fall short of yet another final against her sister, the top-seeded Serena.
Their team sheet reads like a rugby Harlem Globetrotters, even if some of the stars are as superannuated as Meadowlark Lemon.
Or, he could be a living, breathing incarnation of Gary Bloke, the superannuated rock star from the Private Eye cartoon Celeb (he even says "Hey, man" from time to time).
For nothing is so insubstantial, so liable to be superannuated or simply to shift its meaning, as a neologism.
De Niro's later credits include Grudge Match (2013), in which he and Sylvester Stallone played superannuated boxers who reunite for one last fight, and the workplace comedy The Intern (2015), in which he was featured as the title character opposite Anne Hathaway.
"It all reminds me of a remark made by Satchel Paige, the venerable but never superannuated Negro baseball pitcher.
We are more anxious about what will happen to the uneducated and unqualified who will be superannuated by machines and become disaffected.... "The Last Samurai" is in fact a triumph — a genuinely new story, a genuinely new form, which has more to offer on every reading but is gripping from the beginning of the first.
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