Current and Old-fashioned

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Current adjective - Being or involving the latest methods, concepts, information, or styles.

Usage example: current therapies for treating cancer have success rates that were undreamed of only a few decades ago

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Old-fashioned is an antonym for current in topics: present, contemporary.

Nearby Words: currency, currently

Old-fashioned adjective - Pleasantly reminiscent of an earlier time.

Usage example: an elegant, old-fashioned bun that was held in place with pearl hairpins

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Current is an antonym for old-fashioned in topics: out of date, antiquated.

Peter Capaldi is on record as describing the current (as of 2015) relationship between the Twelfth Doctor and Clara Oswald as "an old-fashioned romance".

Source: Sex Equals Love
The spelling "kwaidan" for "ghost story" is deliberately old-fashioned; the current romanization would be "kaidan."The film is an anthology of four unrelated stories.

Source: Film / Kwaidan
This is Amenadiel's current plan to get Lucifer back to Hell: a good old-fashioned anonymous murder.

Source: Series / Lucifer (2016)

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