up-to-date

See also: uptodate and up to date

English

Alternative forms

• up to date (after the noun), uptodate

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌʌp tə ˈdeɪt/

• Audio (US):

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• Audio (General Australian):

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Adjective

up-to-date (comparative more up-to-date, superlative most up-to-date)

1. (before the noun, idiomatic) Current; recent; the latest.

   Use an up-to-date text for your source.

   • 2018, James Lambert, “Anglo-Indian slang in dictionaries on historical principles”, in World Englishes, volume 37, page 248:

     Yet, in spite of this interest there has been little movement in the field of lexicography, so that Indian English has no up-to-date dictionaries to speak of, certainly nothing published in the twenty-first century.

2. (idiomatic) Informed about the latest news or developments; abreast.

   I like to stay up-to-date about current affairs.

Synonyms

• (current): à la mode, fashionable
• (informed): apprised, abreast, informed

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “current”): stale, dated

Related terms

• update

Translations

current; recent

• Arabic: حتى الآن (ḥattā-al-ʔān), عصري (ʕaṣriyy), محدث (muḥaddiṯ)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 最新的 (zuìxīn de)

• Czech: aktuální (cs)
• Dutch: actueel (nl), actueel (nl), actueel (nl)
• Esperanto: aktuala
• Finnish: tuore (fi), viimeisin (fi), ajantasainen (fi), ajanmukainen (fi)
• French: à jour (fr), actuel (fr)
• Georgian: უახლესი (uaxlesi)
• German: aktuell (de), zeitbezogen, gegenwartsbezogen, heutig (de), tagesaktuell
• Greek: τρέχων (el) (tréchon), πρόσφατος (el) (prósfatos), επικαιροποιημένος (el) (epikairopoiiménos), πρόσφατος (el) (prósfatos)
• Haitian Creole: mizajou
• Hebrew: עַדְכָּנִי (he) m ('adkaní)
• Hindi: अद्यतन (hi) (adyatan)
• Hungarian: aktuális (hu), naprakész (hu)
• Indonesian: mutakhir (id), aktual (id)
• Italian: attuale (it), aggiornato (it)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: oppdatert, (up to date) à jour (no) (adverb)

  Nynorsk: (up to date) à jour (no) (adverb)

• Persian: به روز (be-ruz)
• Polish: aktualny (pl) m
• Portuguese: atual (pt), em dia (pt)
• Romanian: la curent, la zi, actualizat
• Russian: актуа́льный (ru) (aktuálʹnyj), све́жий (ru) (svéžij), совреме́нный (ru) (sovreménnyj), теку́щий (ru) (tekúščij)
• Serbo-Croatian: ažuran (sh), aktualan (sh)
• Slovene: aktualen
• Spanish: al día (es), actualizado (es)
• Swedish: uppdaterad (sv), aktuell (sv)
• Turkish: güncel (tr), aktüel (tr)
• Urdu: عصری (asrī)

informed of the latest news

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 了解情況的 / 了解情况的 (liǎojiě qíngkuàng de), 瞭解新進展的 / 了解新进展的 (liǎojiě xīn jìnzhǎn de), 關注最新消息的 / 关注最新消息的 (guānzhù zuìxīn xiāoxi de)

• Danish: ajour, up to date
• Finnish: informoitu (fi); ajan tasalla (adverb, idiomatic)
• French: au courant (fr)
• Georgian: საქმის კურსში (sakmis ḳursši)
• German: auf dem Laufenden, auf dem neuesten Stand, up to date (de), gut unterrichtet, gut informiert
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Italian: aggiornato (it)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: (up to date) à jour (no) (adverb), up-to-date

  Nynorsk: (up to date) à jour (no) (adverb)

• Polish: na bieżąco (pl)
• Portuguese: atualizado (pt)
• Russian: в ку́рсе (ru) (v kúrse)
• Spanish: al corriente (es), actualizado (es)
• Swedish: à jour (sv), uppdaterad (sv)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from English up-to-date.

Adjective

up-to-date (indeclinable, comparative mer up-to-date, superlative mest up-to-date)

1. up-to-date

   Synonyms: à jour, oppdatert

Further reading

• “up-to-date” in The Bokmål Dictionary.