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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Being in the process of passing out of use or usefulness; becoming obsolete.
  2. adj. Biology Gradually disappearing; imperfectly or only slightly developed. Used of an organ or other part of an animal or plant.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Becoming obsolete; passing out of use: as, an obsolescent word or custom.
  2. In entomology, somewhat obsolete; imperfectly visible. Synonyms Ancient, Old, Antique, etc. See ancient.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. In the process of becoming obsolete, but not obsolete yet.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Going out of use; becoming obsolete; passing into desuetude.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. becoming obsolete

Etymologies

  1. First attested circa 1780, from Latin obsolescentum. (Wiktionary)
  2. Latin obsolēscēns, obsolēscent-, present participle of obsolēscere, to fall into disuse : ob-, away; see ob- + solēre, to be accustomed to. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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