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retardataire

retardataire adjective: anachronistic, dated, especially in artistic style.

Adjective

retardataire

  1. anachronistic, dated, especially in artistic style.
    • Ditto with "community." [He says that] the notion that there's such a thing (or should be such a thing!) as a gay "community" is a product of those messy gay lib days. It comes in for a similarly superficial and retardataire drubbing, with however the extra good laugh that he can't refrain from...1980 August 30, Tim Walton, “Queer Rights Strategy Argued in Quirky Dictionary”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 6, page 14

Origin of retardataire

Borrowed from French retardataire.

Questions about retardataire

What does retardataire mean?
Retardataire means anachronistic, dated, especially in artistic style.
What part of speech is retardataire?
Retardataire is an adjective.

Words near retardataire in the dictionary

  1. retardances
  2. retardancies
  3. retardancy
  4. retardant
  5. retardants
  6. retardataire
  7. retardate
  8. retardates
  9. retardation
  10. retardational
  11. retardations

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