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dated

/ˈdeɪtɪd/

dated adjective: marked with a date. Also the simple past and past participle of date.

Adjective

dated (comparative more dated, superlative most dated)

  1. Marked with a date.
    • The first dated entry in the diary was from October 1922.
  2. Outdated.
    • "Omnibus" is a dated term for a bus.
    Synonyms:
    outdated
  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.
    • [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.2018 November 13, Kate Julian, “Why Are Young People Having So Little Sex?”, in The Atlantic
    Synonyms:
    anachronous
  4. No longer fashionable.
    • Slang can become dated very quickly.
    Synonyms:
    démodé
  5. (obsolete) Alotted a span of days.
    • 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.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...

Also used as

dated is also the simple past and past participle of date.

dated meaning in Marathi, Urdu and Indonesian

dated in Marathi

दिनांकित

dated in Urdu

تاریخ شدہ, ڈیٹ شدہ

dated in Indonesian

out of date
usang
no longer fashionable
basi

Examples of dated in a sentence

  • They dated for a few weeks before making their relationship Facebook official.
  • We dated for almost a year, but I've never been with him.
  • I dated him for a hot second.

All 40 example sentences with dated

Synonyms of dated

Antonyms

All synonyms and antonyms of dated

Forms of dated

comparativemore dated
superlativemost dated

Words formed from dated

Phrases with dated

Words that rhyme with dated

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Questions about dated

What does dated mean?
Dated means marked with a date.
What is dated in Marathi?
Dated in Marathi is दिनांकित. See Dated meaning in Marathi.
What part of speech is dated?
Dated is an adjective.
How do you pronounce dated?
Dated is pronounced /ˈdeɪtɪd/.

Words near dated in the dictionary

  1. dateable
  2. dateaversaries
  3. dateaversary
  4. datebook
  5. datebooks
  6. dated
  7. dated back
  8. dated out
  9. dated up
  10. datedly
  11. datedness

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: dated (page history and authors); dated (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); dated (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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