Antonyms for passe
Grammar : Adj |
Spell : pahs |
Phonetic Transcription : pɑs |
Definition of passe
Origin :- 1775, from French passé (fem. passée) "past, faded," past participle of passer "to pass" (see pass (v.)). Originally of a woman past the period of greatest beauty.
- adj old-fashioned
- What shulde thei do in scholes but passe the daye in chydyng and beatynge?
- Extract from : « The Education of Children » by Desiderius Erasmus
- But I could never learne the cause why it should be so called, and therefore I will let it passe.
- Extract from : « The Survey of London » by John Stow
- Manie of them for hast were drowned in a riuer which they had to passe.
- Extract from : « Holinshed Chronicles, Volume I, Complete » by Raphaell Holinshed
- This pear came from a seed of the Passe Colmar sown by M. Mas in 1850.
- Extract from : « The Pears of New York » by U. P. Hedrick
- They will passe for current at a May-pole, and purchase a favour from their May-Marian.
- Extract from : « Finger-Ring Lore » by William Jones
- Which being brought in question, they were fownd to have no passe.
- Extract from : « Diary of Richard Cocks, Volume II » by Richard Cocks
- They come and look at your bloody plakaard and then passe on.
- Extract from : « The Journal of a Disappointed Man » by Wilhelm Nero Pilate Barbellion
- These, the instructions state, are "to passe as by-letters."
- Extract from : « The History of the Post Office » by Herbert Joyce
- The sixt containes some notable places by which the Climats passe.
- Extract from : « A Briefe Introduction to Geography » by William Pemble
- For I must passe that tyme in doynge my dewty to my howsehold.
- Extract from : « The Pilgrimage of Pure Devotion » by Desiderius Erasmus
Synonyms for passe
- ancient
- antiquated
- antique
- archaic
- behind the times
- bygone
- corny
- dated
- dead
- démodé
- demoded
- disapproved
- dowdy
- extinct
- fusty
- grown old
- moldy
- musty
- neglected
- not current
- not modern
- not with it
- obsolescent
- obsolete
- odd
- of old
- of olden days
- of the old school
- old
- old-fangled
- old-hat
- old-time
- olden
- oldfangled
- out
- out of it
- out of style
- out-of-date
- out-of-style
- outdated
- outmoded
- outworn
- passé
- past
- primitive
- rococo
- superannuated
- unfashionable
- unstylish
- vintage
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