outdatable

outdatable

English

Etymology

From outdate +‎ -able.

Adjective

outdatable (comparative more outdatable, superlative most outdatable)

  1. Capable of becoming outdated.
    • 1996, Robin B. Peek, Scholarly Publishing: the Electronic Frontier‎[1]:
      Even then, the program could send out requests for proposals on an ongoing basis to avoid overcommitment to outdatable technology.
    • 1996, Christopher B. Ricks, Essays in Appreciation‎[2]:
      The question, then, of literature and the matter of fact (in both senses) is a simple though not an easy one, an ancient though not an outdatable one. Are works of literature affected if the facts they proffer as facts are not facts, and demonstrably so?
    • 2020, Engels @ 200 - Reading Friedrich Engels in the 21st Century‎[3]:
      […] statements about the particular form of dialectical processes and structures result depending directly on the respective state of the development of science and are consequently also quite clearly provisional and outdatable.
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