3 definitions found
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Archaic \Ar*cha"ic\, adjective [Gr. 'archai:ko's old-fashioned, fr.
'archai^os ancient.]
Of or characterized by antiquity or archaism; antiquated;
obsolescent.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
archaic
adjective
1: so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period;
"a ramshackle antediluvian tenement"; "antediluvian
ideas"; "archaic laws" [syn: {antediluvian}, {antiquated}]
2: 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" [syn: {primitive}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
48 Moby Thesaurus words for "archaic":
Gothic, Victorian, abandoned, abjured, antediluvian, antiquated,
antique, behind the times, bygone, classical, dated, deserted,
discontinued, disused, done with, fossil, fossilized, grown old,
medieval, mid-Victorian, not worth saving, obsolescent, obsolete,
of other times, old, old-fashioned, old-timey, old-world,
on the shelf, out, out of use, out-of-date, outdated, outmoded,
outworn, passe, past use, pensioned off, petrified, relinquished,
renounced, resigned, retired, superannuate, superannuated,
superseded, undeveloped, worn-out
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