archaic

from 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}]
    
from 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]
    
from 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      on the shelf, out, out of use, out-of-date, outdated, outmoded,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      superseded, undeveloped, worn-out

    

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