Obsolescent Definition

ŏbsə-lĕsənt
adjective
In the process of becoming obsolete.
Webster's New World
Becoming reduced during the course of evolution; vestigial or nearly vestigial. Used of an organ or other part of an organism.
American Heritage Medicine

Origin of Obsolescent

  • Latin obsolēscēns obsolēscent- present participle of obsolēscere to fall into disuse ob- away ob– solēre to be accustomed to

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • First attested circa 1780, from Latin obsolescentum.

    From Wiktionary

Obsolescent Sentence Examples

  • The seven earlier ones are all more or less obsolescent, and their very number shows that the meaning of the word was very vague.

  • These obsolescent biplanes performed admirably, transporting troops and supplies around the area and bombing rebel villages with great effect.

  • In short, the country was already thoroughly democratic in spirit, while Federalism stood for obsolescent social ideas and was infected with political "Toryism" fatally against the times.

  • As a result of these various degenerations the functions of the body deteriorate, the faculties become blunted, and the muscular energy of the body is below what it was in earlier life, while the secreting glands in certain instances become functionally obsolescent.

  • The methods of burning cement described above are obsolescent.

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