Meaning & Definition of Archaic in English
English⟶
Archaic
/ɑrkeɪk/
adjective
1. So extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period
- "A ramshackle antediluvian tenement"
- "Antediluvian ideas"
- "Archaic laws"
synonym:
- 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"
synonym:
- archaic,
- primitive