passé

• passe

From French passé (“passed”, past participle of passer (“to pass”)).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpæ.seɪ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /pæˈseɪ/
• Rhymes: -eɪ

passé (comparative more passé, superlative most passé)

1. (colloquial) Dated; out of style; old-fashioned.
   • 1997, Courtney Taylor-Taylor (lyrics and music), “Not If You Were the Last Junkie on Earth”, performed by The Dandy Warhols:

     I never thought you'd be a junkie, because heroin is so passé.

   • 2007, “Turn On Billie”, performed by The Pierces:

     We'll paint the town blue 'cause, baby, red is so passé.

   • 2022 June 17, Michelle Goldberg, “The Future Isn’t Female Anymore”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     It is perhaps inevitable that a movement that was the height of fashion in the last decade would start to seem passé in this one. That’s how style works; the young and innovative distinguish themselves by breaking with the conventions of their predecessors.

   • 2023 June 16, Daisy Jones, “Cool, sexy and stinking of smoke: why are TV dramas giving cigarettes a comeback?”, in The Guardian‎^[2], →ISSN:

     Then, like side fringes, Smirnoff Ice and tights under denim shorts, smoking was suddenly passé – distasteful, even gross.

2. Past one's prime; worn; faded.
   • 1939 November, “Pertinent Paragraphs: The Shropshire & Montgomeryshire Light Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 357:

     The coaching stock is in general in a very passé condition, but the ex-royal saloon, though needing a coat of paint outside, as another photograph shows, is spotless inside.

As in French, passée is sometimes used for the feminine: "a passée belle".

• (dated, old-fashioned): disused, outdated, outworn; see also Thesaurus:obsolete or Thesaurus:unfashionable
• (past one's prime): raddled, wasted, worn-out; see also Thesaurus:deteriorated

passé (plural passés)

1. (fencing) An attack that passes the target without hitting.

• spaes, pases, PESAs, apses, apess

• IPA^(key): /pa.se/ ~ /pɑ.se/

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passé m (plural passés)

1. past tense
2. past (opposite of future)

passé (feminine passée, masculine plural passés, feminine plural passées)

1. past
2. (used with certain temporal nouns) last

   Synonym: dernier

   la semaine passée ; l’année passée, l’an passé ; l’hiver passé ― last week; last year; last winter

• participe passé
• passé de mode

passé (feminine passée, masculine plural passés, feminine plural passées)

1. past participle of passer

• “passé”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• pesas

• passee (superseded)

Borrowed from French passé.

• IPA^(key): [ˌpaˈseː]

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passé (indeclinable, predicative only)

1. past, over

   Synonyms: vorbei, vergangen

Only used predicatively. Indeclinable, predicative-only.

passé m (pl passés, f passeda, fpl passedes)

1. Alternative form of passer
2. past participle of passer

From French passer (“to pass”), compare Haitian Creole pase.

passé

1. to pass

• Alcée Fortier, Louisiana Folktales

From Vulgar Latin *passāre, derived from Latin passus (“step”, noun).

passé

1. to pass

Unadapted borrowing from French passé.

• IPA^(key): /pasˈsɛ/

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• Rhymes: -ɛ
• Syllabification: pas‧sé

passé (not comparable, indeclinable, no derived adverb)

1. outdated, outmoded, passé, unfashionable

   Synonyms: miniony, niemodny, nienowoczesny, przebrzmiały, stary

• passé in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• passé in Polish dictionaries at PWN

passé (comparative mer passé, superlative mest passé)

1. passé (dated, out of style, past one's prime)

• passé in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• passé in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• passé in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)