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  • as inancient
  • as inbehind the times
  • as inoutdated
  • as inoutdated/out-of-date

synonyms for back number

  • age-old
  • antique
  • archaic
  • hoary
  • old-fashioned
  • timeworn
  • venerable
  • aged
  • antediluvian
  • bygone
  • elderly
  • fossil
  • oldie
  • relic
  • remote
  • antiquated
  • been around
  • creaky
  • early
  • few miles on
  • lot of mileage
  • moth-eaten
  • obsolete
  • old goat
  • older
  • out-of-date
  • outmoded
  • primal
  • primeval
  • primordial
  • rusty
  • superannuated
  • worse for wear

antonyms for back number

MOST RELEVANT
  • current
  • fresh
  • modern
  • new
  • young
    • current
    • fashionable
    • modern
    • new
    • popular
    • up-to-date
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    How to use back number in a sentence

    I waited three months more, in great impatience, then sent him back to the same post, to see if there might be a reply.
    THE BOARDED-UP HOUSEAUGUSTA HUIELL SEAMAN
    Ages back—let musty geologists tell us how long ago—'twas a lake, larger than the Lake of Geneva.
    BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, VOLUME 60, NO. 372, OCTOBER 1846VARIOUS
    The country is well inhabited, for it contains fifty-one cities, near a hundred walled towns, and a great number of villages.
    GULLIVER'S TRAVELSJONATHAN SWIFT
    The boys were tumbling about, clinging to his legs, imploring that numerous things be brought back to them.
    THE AWAKENING AND SELECTED SHORT STORIESKATE CHOPIN
    With a suffocating gasp, she fell back into the chair on which she sat, and covered her face with her hands.
    THE PASTOR'S FIRE-SIDE VOL. 3 OF 4JANE PORTER
    She was holding the back of her chair with one hand; her loose sleeve had slipped almost to the shoulder of her uplifted arm.
    THE AWAKENING AND SELECTED SHORT STORIESKATE CHOPIN
    The strains of the syren at last woke her uncle, and brought back Miss Hood, who suggested that it was late.
    THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLS
    Drowned every few seconds by our tremendous salvoes, this more nervous noise crept back insistently into our ears in the interval.
    GALLIPOLI DIARY, VOLUME IIAN HAMILTON
    We had six field-pieces, but we only took four, harnessed wit twice the usual number of horses.
    BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, NO. CCCXXXIX. JANUARY, 1844. VOL. LV.VARIOUS
    Off went the officers again, some distance to the front, and then back again to their men, and got them on a little further.
    BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, NO. CCCXXXIX. JANUARY, 1844. VOL. LV.VARIOUS
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