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passé
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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From French passé (“passed”, past participle of passer (“to pass”)).
Pronunciation
Adjective
passé (comparative more passé, superlative most passé)
- (colloquial) Dated; out of style; old-fashioned.
- 1997, Courtney Taylor-Taylor, “Not If You Were the Last Junkie on Earth”, performed by The Dandy Warhols:
- I never thought you'd be a junkie, because heroin is so passé.
- 2007, “Turn On Billie”, performed by The Pierces:
- We'll paint the town blue 'cause, baby, red is so passé.
- 2022 June 17, Michelle Goldberg, “The Future Isn’t Female Anymore”, in The New York Times:
- It is perhaps inevitable that a movement that was the height of fashion in the last decade would start to seem passé in this one. That’s how style works; the young and innovative distinguish themselves by breaking with the conventions of their predecessors.
- 2023 June 16, Daisy Jones, “Cool, sexy and stinking of smoke: why are TV dramas giving cigarettes a comeback?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
- Then, like side fringes, Smirnoff Ice and tights under denim shorts, smoking was suddenly passé – distasteful, even gross.
- Past one's prime; worn; faded.
- 1939 November, “Pertinent Paragraphs: The Shropshire & Montgomeryshire Light Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 357:
- The coaching stock is in general in a very passé condition, but the ex-royal saloon, though needing a coat of paint outside, as another photograph shows, is spotless inside.
Usage notes
As in French, passée is sometimes used for the feminine: "a passée belle".
Synonyms
- (dated, old-fashioned): disused, outdated, outworn; see also Thesaurus:obsolete or Thesaurus:unfashionable
- (past one's prime): raddled, wasted, worn-out; see also Thesaurus:deteriorated
Translations
dated; out of style; old-fashioned
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Noun
passé (plural passés)
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French
Pronunciation
Noun
passé m (plural passés)
- past tense
- past (opposite of future)
Derived terms
Adjective
passé (feminine passée, masculine plural passés, feminine plural passées)
- past
- (used with certain temporal nouns) last
- Synonym: dernier
- la semaine passée ; l'année passée, l’an passé ; l'hiver passé ― last week; last year; last winter
Derived terms
Participle
passé (feminine passée, masculine plural passés, feminine plural passées)
- past participle of passer
Further reading
- “passé”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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German
Alternative forms
Etymology
Pronunciation
Adjective
passé (indeclinable, predicative only)
Declension
Only used predicatively. Indeclinable, predicative-only.
Ladin
Verb
passé m (pl passés, f passeda, fpl passedes)
- alternative form of passer
- past participle of passer
Louisiana Creole
Etymology
From French passer (“to pass”), compare Haitian Creole pase.
Verb
passé
- to pass
References
- Alcée Fortier, Louisiana Folktales
Piedmontese
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *passāre, derived from Latin passus (“step”, noun).
Verb
passé
- to pass
Polish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from French passé.
Pronunciation
Adjective
passé (not comparable, indeclinable, no derived adverb)
- outdated, outmoded, passé, unfashionable
- Synonyms: miniony, niemodny, nienowoczesny, przebrzmiały, stary
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Spanish
Verb
passé
Swedish
Adjective
passé (comparative mer passé, superlative mest passé)
- passé (dated, out of style, past one's prime)
References
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