Definitions for: Archaic


[adj] little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type; "archaic forms of life"; "primitive mammals"; "the okapi is a short-necked primitive cousin of the giraffe"
[adj] so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period; "a ramshackle antediluvian tenement"; "antediluvian ideas"; "archaic laws"



Webster (1913) Definition: Ar*cha"ic, a. [Gr. 'archai:ko`s old-fashioned, fr.
'archai^os ancient.]
Of or characterized by antiquity or archaism; antiquated;
obsolescent.

Synonyms: antediluvian, antiquated, early, old, primitive

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