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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period;
- Example: "a ramshackle antediluvian tenement"
- Example: "antediluvian ideas"
- Example: "archaic laws"
[syn: antediluvian, antiquated, archaic]

2. little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type;
- Example: "archaic forms of life"
- Example: "primitive mammals"
- Example: "the okapi is a short-necked primitive cousin of the giraffe"
[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]