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Superannuated


Superannuated​

(SOO-per-AN-yew-ay-ted)

Adjective:

-Discharged, esp with a pension, owing to age or illness.

-Too old to serve usefully.

-Obsolete through age or new technological or intellectual developments.

-Incapacitated or disqualified for active duty by advanced age.

-Older than the typical member of a specified group.

From Medieval Latin superannātus aged more than one year, from Latin super- + annus a year. 17th century.

Used in a sentence:

“I find myself to be exorbitantly superannuated for this feculence!”

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