[syn: antediluvian, antiquated, archaic]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
antediluvian \an`te*di*lu"vi*an\
([a^]n`t[-e]*d[i^]*l[=u]"v[i^]*an), a.
Of or relating to the period before the Deluge in Noah's
time; hence, antiquated; as, an antediluvian vehicle. -- n.
One who lived before the Deluge.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
antediluvian
adj 1: of or relating to the period before the biblical flood;
"antediluvian man" [syn: antediluvian, antediluvial]
2: so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period;
"a ramshackle antediluvian tenement"; "antediluvian ideas";
"archaic laws" [syn: antediluvian, antiquated, archaic]
n 1: any of the early patriarchs who lived prior to the Noachian
deluge [syn: antediluvian, antediluvian patriarch]
2: a very old person [syn: ancient, antediluvian]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
98 Moby Thesaurus words for "antediluvian":
Bronze Age man, Gothic, Hominidae, Iron Age man, Methuselah,
Stone Age man, Victorian, aboriginal, aborigine, age-old, aged,
ancient, ante-bellum, antemundane, anthropoid, antiquated, antique,
ape-man, archaic, autochthon, back number, before the Fall,
before the Flood, before the war, bushman, cave dweller, caveman,
classical, conservative, dad, dodo, elder, fogy, fossil,
fossil man, fossilized, fud, fuddy-duddy, granny, grown old,
has-been, hoary, hominid, humanoid, longhair, man of old,
matriarch, medieval, mid-Victorian, missing link, mossback,
of other times, old, old believer, old crock, old dodo, old fogy,
old liner, old man, old poop, old woman, old-timer, old-world,
patriarch, petrified, pop, pops, pre-Aryan, pre-Christian,
pre-Renaissance, pre-Roman, preadamite, preclassical, precultural,
prehistoric, prehistoric man, prehuman, prelapsarian,
premillenarian, premundane, prerevolutionary, preromantic, prewar,
primate, primitive, protohistoric, protohuman, reactionary,
regular old fogy, relic, square, starets, stick-in-the-mud,
superannuated, timeworn, traditionalist, troglodyte, venerable