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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɒbsəliːt/
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• Atlantic-Canada, General-American: äbsəˈlēt
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• Atlantic-Canada, General-American: /ˈɑbsəlit/
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• Atlantic-Canada, General-American: /ɑbsəˈlit/
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• US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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• Canada, dialectal: /ˈɒbsəlit/ of the US
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• Australian: /ˈɔbsəliːt/
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• New-Zealand: /ˈɔ̟bsəliːt/
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• CMU ARPABET: AA1 B S AH0 L IY2 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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• CMU ARPABET 2: AA2 B S AH0 L IY1 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Borrowed from Latin obsolētus (“worn out, gone out of use”), past participle of obsolēscere (“to wear out, fall into disuse, grow old, decay”); see obsolesce.

86 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: عفا عليها الزمن — no longer in use
• Azerbaijani: köhnə — no longer in use
• Azerbaijani: köhnəlmiş — no longer in use
• Breton: diamzeret — no longer in use
• Breton: dispredet — no longer in use
• Bulgarian: излязъл от употреба (izljazǎl ot upotreba) — no longer in use
• Catalan: obsolet — no longer in use
• Chinese Mandarin: 淘汰 (táotài) — no longer in use
• Chinese Mandarin: 過時 /过时 (guòshí) — no longer in use
• Chinese Mandarin: 廢棄 /废弃 (fèiqì) — no longer in use
• Danish: gået af brug — no longer in use
• Danish: forældet — no longer in use
• Dutch: verouderd — no longer in use
• Dutch: achterhaald — no longer in use
• Dutch: in onbruik — no longer in use
• Esperanto: troantikva — no longer in use
• Finnish: vanhentunut — no longer in use
• French: obsolète — no longer in use
• German: veraltet — no longer in use
• German: obsolet — no longer in use
• German: antiquiert — no longer in use
• German: alt — no longer in use
• Greek: απαρχαιωμένος (aparchaioménos) — no longer in use
• Greek: ξεπερασμένος (xeperasménos) — no longer in use
• Greek: παρωχημένος (parochiménos) — no longer in use
• Hebrew: מיושן (m'yushán) — no longer in use
• Hindi: अप्रचलित (apraclit) — no longer in use
• Hungarian: elavult — no longer in use
• Hungarian: idejétmúlt — no longer in use
• Hungarian: ósdi — no longer in use
• Icelandic: úreltur — no longer in use
• Ido: obsoleta — no longer in use
• Indonesian: usang — no longer in use
• Irish: seanchaite — no longer in use
• Italian: obsoleto — no longer in use
• Italian: in disuso — no longer in use
• Japanese: 廃れた (sutareta) — no longer in use
• Kazakh: ескірген (eskırgen) — no longer in use
• Kazakh: көнерген (könergen) — no longer in use
• Korean: 폐어 (pyeeo) — no longer in use
• Latin: obsolētus — no longer in use
• Latvian: novecojis — no longer in use
• Malay: usang — no longer in use
• Māori: tūnguru — no longer in use
• Māori: matangarongaro — no longer in use
• Norwegian Bokmål: foreldet — no longer in use
• Polish: przestarzały — no longer in use
• Polish: zdezaktualizowany — no longer in use
• Portuguese: obsoleto — no longer in use
• Romanian: ieșit din uz — no longer in use
• Romanian: scos din uz — no longer in use
• Romanian: învechit — no longer in use
• Romanian: desuet — no longer in use
• Russian: устаре́вший (ustarévšij) — no longer in use
• Serbo-Croatian: zastario — no longer in use
• Spanish: obsoleto — no longer in use
• Spanish: desusado — no longer in use
• Swedish: föråldrad — no longer in use
• Swedish: ur bruk — no longer in use
• Tamil: வழக்கற்றுப்போன (vaḻakkaṟṟuppōṉa) — no longer in use
• Turkish: eskimiş — no longer in use
• Vietnamese: lỗi thời — no longer in use
• Vietnamese: mai một — no longer in use
• Welsh: anarferedig — no longer in use
• Welsh: darfodedig — no longer in use
• Zazaki: kehan (diq) — no longer in use
• Zazaki: verên (diq) — no longer in use
• Bulgarian: атрофирал (atrofiral) — in biology: imperfectly developed
• Catalan: rudimentari — in biology: imperfectly developed
• Dutch: rudimentair — in biology: imperfectly developed
• German: atroph — in biology: imperfectly developed
• Greek: υποτυπώδης (ypotypódis) — in biology: imperfectly developed
• Hindi: अर्धविकसित (ardhaviksit) — in biology: imperfectly developed
• Japanese: 退化した (taika shita) — in biology: imperfectly developed
• Romanian: rudimentar — in biology: imperfectly developed
• Romanian: rudimentar — in biology: imperfectly developed
• Romanian: rudimentari — in biology: imperfectly developed
• Romanian: rudimentară — in biology: imperfectly developed
• Romanian: rudimentare — in biology: imperfectly developed
• German: abnutzen — to cause to become obsolete
• German: runterwirtschaften — to cause to become obsolete
• German: als veraltet erklären — to cause to become obsolete
• German: als veraltet klassifizieren — to cause to become obsolete
• Japanese: 廃止する (haishi-suru) — to cause to become obsolete
• Māori: whakatūnguru — to cause to become obsolete
• Norwegian Bokmål: forelde — to cause to become obsolete