superannuated

Meaning of superannuated

adjective
  1. (of a post or employee) belonging to a superannuation scheme.
    she is not superannuated and has no paid holiday
  2. outdated or obsolete through age or new developments.
    superannuated computing equipment
    a superannuated hippy
verb, past tense
  1. retire (someone) with a pension.
    his pilot's licence was withdrawn and he was superannuated

mid 17th century: back-formation from superannuated, from medieval Latin superannuatus, from Latin super- ‘over’ + annus ‘year’.

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Hyphenation of superannuated

su-per-an-nu-ated

  • It consists of 5 syllables and 13 chars.
  • superannuated is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables

superannuated synonyms

Meaning retired:

retired

Meaning overage:

overage, overaged

Meaning obsolete:

obsolete, outdated

Meaning having lived for a long time; no longer young:

old

Meaning old-fashioned or outdated:

antiquated

Meaning old-fashioned:

outmoded

Meaning belonging to a period other than that being portrayed:

anachronistic

Meaning out of date:

outworn

Meaning no longer being used:

disused

Meaning no longer existing or functioning:

defunct

Meaning (of a person) at the point of death:

moribund

Meaning dismiss someone from employment, typically because of age or ill health, and pay them a pension:

pensioned

Meaning (of a person) old or ageing:

elderly

Words that rhyme with superannuated

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