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démodé

Portuguese, adjective

démodé is a Portuguese adjective meaning “alternative spelling of demodê” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, demodê is a different word: “passé, old-fashioned (outdated or no longer in vogue)”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ver demodê”.

What does démodé mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    alternative spelling of demodê

adjective

as demodê
  1. 1

    informalpassé, old-fashioned (outdated or no longer in vogue)

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. ver demodê

adjective: 1. que é conforme padrão ou tendência anterior ao da moda atual

The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.

Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of démodé

  • démodée feminine
  • démodés masculine plural
  • démodées feminine plural
  • démodé alternative

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to démodé

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is démodé in Portuguese?

démodé appears about once in every 31 million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).