Archaic

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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 WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

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     on the shelf, out, out of use, out-of-date, outdated, outmoded,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     superseded, undeveloped, worn-out