obsolescent

Modifying Another Word

• increasingly: These changes conspired to render the small country mill increasingly obsolescent.
• not: The following options can be used to select whether or not obsolescent item messages are to be output.

Modifies a noun

• equipment: Bad weather and obsolescent equipment meant that the venture was not a success.
• technology: We will challenge head-on the ludicrous claims of the politicians who are peddling this obsolescent technology as the answer to global warming.
• biplane: These obsolescent biplanes performed admirably, transporting troops and supplies around the area and bombing rebel villages with great effect.
• list: The obsolescent list includes features which might be removed in the next revision and should not be used in new or revised programs.
• institution: Throughout our national life there was a stubborn refusal to root out obsolete ideas and modernize obsolescent institutions.

Used with adjective complement

• become: What we don't want to do and can afford to do is fall behind, becoming obsolescent.
• regard: The old functions and the use of the colors listed below should be regarded as obsolescent.