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Synonyms for "archaic" in English

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archaic:
- archaic; ancient; antique; primitive; antediluvian; antiquated

English

Detailed Synonyms for archaic in English

archaic:

archaic adj

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archaic
- archaic adj
archaic
ancient; archaic; antique
- ancient adj
- archaic adj
- antique adj
archaic

– little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type ¹
archaic; primitive
– little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type ¹
- archaic adj
  - archaic forms of life¹
- primitive adj
  - primitive mammals¹
  - the okapi is a short-necked primitive cousin of the giraffe¹
archaic

– so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period ¹
archaic; antediluvian; antiquated
– so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period ¹
- archaic adj
  - archaic laws¹
- antediluvian adj
  - a ramshackle antediluvian tenement¹
  - antediluvian ideas¹
- antiquated adj

Alternate Synonyms for "archaic":

antediluvian; antiquated; old
primitive; early

Related Definitions for "archaic":

little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type¹
- archaic forms of life¹
so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period¹
- archaic laws¹

¹WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University