Dated and Previous

Dated

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

Previous and dated are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Previous" instead an adjective "Dated".

Nearby Words: date, datable

Previous

Previous adjective - Going before another in time or order.

Dated and previous are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Dated" instead an adjective "Previous".

Nearby Word: previously

Both words in one sentence

  • Fat Girl An alternate universe episode also establishes that if she was still fat, none of her previous boyfriends would have dated her and she'd be a virgin.
    Source: Fat Girl
  • Katie Waissel had once dated Michael Sophocles, an Elimination Houdini on the previous years' series of the Apprentice.
  • Series / The Mary Tyler Moore Show Uncanny Family Resemblance: In "Howard's Girl", Rhoda insinuates that Mary's boyfriend, Paul Arnell, is more attractive than his brother Howard, who Mary dated in a previous episode.
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Previous and Dated. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/dated/previous
Dated & Previous. N.p., 2016. Web. 22 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/dated/previous>.
Previous or Dated. 2016. Accessed July 22, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/dated/previous.
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