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.

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• (dated, old-fashioned): disused, outdated, outworn; see also Thesaurus:obsolete or Thesaurus:unfashionable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

• apess, apses, spaes

• 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

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

   Synonym: dernier

• 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• passee (superseded)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

passé

1. to pass

Borrowed from French passé.

• IPA^(key): /pasˈsɛ/

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• Rhymes: -assɛ
• Syllabification: pas‧sé

passé (not comparable)

1. outdated, outmoded, passé, unfashionable

   Synonyms: miniony, niemodny, nienowoczesny, przebrzmiały, stary

Indeclinable.

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