Antediluvian

3 definitions found

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

  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]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  antediluvian
       adj 1: of or relating to the period before the Biblical flood;
              "Antediluvian man" [syn: {antediluvial}]
       2: so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period;
          "a ramshackle antediluvian tenement"; "antediluvian
          ideas"; "archaic laws" [syn: {antiquated}, {archaic}]
       n 1: any of the early patriarchs who lived prior to the Deluge
            [syn: {antediluvian patriarch}]
       2: a very old (or old fashioned) person

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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