Definitions for archaic

Definitions for (adj) archaic

Main entry: primitive, archaic

Definition: little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type

Usage: archaic forms of life; primitive mammals; the okapi is a short-necked primitive cousin of the giraffe


Main entry: antediluvian, antiquated, archaic

Definition: so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period

Usage: a ramshackle antediluvian tenement; antediluvian ideas; archaic laws


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