Archaic - Definition

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]

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