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1. (adj.) archaic
marked by the characteristics of an earlier period; antiquated:
archaic ideas.
2. archaic
(of a linguistic form) commonly used in an earlier time but rare in present-day usage except to suggest an older time: used in this dictionary to indicate a word not current since c1900.
3. archaic
forming the earliest stage:
an archaic period of technology.
4. archaic
primitive; ancient:
an archaic form of animal life.
Etymology: (1825–35; (< F) < Gk archaïkós antiquated, old-fashioned =archaî(os) old +-ikos -ic)
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (adj) antediluvian, antiquated, archaic
so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period
"a ramshackle antediluvian tenement"; "antediluvian ideas"; "archaic laws"
2. (adj) archaic, primitive
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"
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (adj) archaic
of or characterized by antiquity or archaism; antiquated; obsolescent
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