[syn: archaic, primitive]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Archaic \Ar*cha"ic\, a. [Gr. 'archai:ko`s old-fashioned, fr.
'archai^os ancient.]
Of or characterized by antiquity or archaism; antiquated;
obsolescent.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
archaic
adj 1: so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier
period; "a ramshackle antediluvian tenement";
"antediluvian ideas"; "archaic laws" [syn:
antediluvian, antiquated, archaic]
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: archaic, primitive]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
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on the shelf, out, out of use, out-of-date, outdated, outmoded,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superseded, undeveloped, worn-out