dépassé
French, adjective
dépassé is spelled D-É-P-A-S-S-É (7 letters) and appears 23 times per million words in written French, the 3,391st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Dépassé is a French adjective meaning “outdated” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of dépasser. With an accent, dépasse is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Dont la date est antérieure au présent”.
What does dépassé mean in English?
adjective
- 1
outdated
verb
- 1
past participle of dépasser
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Dont la date est antérieure au présent. 2. Anachronique, qui n'est plus de son temps.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of dépassé
- dépassée feminine
- dépassés masculine plural
- dépassées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to dépassé
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is dépassé in French?
dépassé appears 23 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).