passé

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The very act of pondering something, anything is passé.

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  • Rather than learning boundaries and judgment this new world is teaching our children that boundaries are bad, commonsense is passé and the weird and wacky is the highest form of entertainment. —  On Line Opinion - Latest Articles
  • As oil prices spiked our tastes suddenly changed and SUVs became passé. —  AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed
  • Thompson has catered several post-trade-show events for international crowds, and said that visitors from other countries always get a kick out of things such as cheese fries and hot dog carts-sure, those things are standard, and even passé, to locals. —  BizBash National News
  • The very act of pondering something, anything is passé. —  Cerulean Sanctum
  • But, I'm considered a has-been now, my methods and my focus seen as passé. —  Dissident Voice
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  1. French, past participle of passer, to pass, from Old French; see pass.

Toggle Century etymologies Century Dictionary (1)

  1. F.,passé, masculine, passée, feminine past participle of passer, pass: see pass, v.
 

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