Cool and Dated

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Cool adjective - Having or showing a lack of friendliness or interest in others.

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Dated is an antonym for cool.

Nearby Words: coolness, coolly, cooler, cooled, cooling

Dated adjective - Having passed its time of use or usefulness.

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Cool is an antonym for dated in old-fashioned topic.

Nearby Words: date, datable

Corb Lund's "Family Reunion" has a line that goes like this: "Cuz one of them I think I mighta dated back in school/ That's alright, in Alberta that's cool".

Source: Kissing Cousins
Hot Cool tends to be very fluid as well; what is Hot Cool today will be dated and passe in a few weeks, months or years.

Source: The Utterly and Completely Definitive Guide to Cool
The funny thing was that the contemporary "big hair" look that Todd McFarlane gave her in the 1990s actually dated more quickly than her "so outdated it's cool again" 1960s hairstyle, which was then brought back.

Source: Outdated Outfit

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