passéの英語

語源

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

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈpæ.seɪ/
• (General American) IPA: /pæˈseɪ/
• 韻: -eɪ

形容詞

passé (comparative more passé, superlative most passé)

1. (colloquial) Dated; out of style; old-fashioned.
   • 1964, Philip K. Dick, “FOUR”, in Clans of the Alphane Moon, United States: Ace Books, →OCLC; republished London: HarperCollinsPublishers, 1996, →ISBN, page 27:

     Mary felt annoyed at the girl; just because bras had become passé, did a girl with so pronounced a bosom have to cater to fashion? In this case practicality dictated a bra, and Mary stood at the desk feeling herself flushing with disapproval.

   • 1997, Courtney Taylor-Taylor, “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:

     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, →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.

使用する際の注意点

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

同意語

• (dated, old-fashioned): disused, outdated, outworn; see also Thesaurus:obsolete or Thesaurus:unfashionable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

名詞

passé (plural passés)

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

アナグラム

• spaes, pases, PESAs, apses, apess