'antediluvian' definitions:
Definition of 'antediluvian'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Of or relating to the period before the biblical flood; "antediluvian man" [syn: antediluvian, antediluvial]
adjective
So extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period; "a ramshackle antediluvian tenement"; "antediluvian ideas"; "archaic laws" [syn: antediluvian, antiquated, archaic]
noun
Any of the early patriarchs who lived prior to the Noachian deluge [syn: antediluvian, antediluvian patriarch]
noun
A very old person [syn: ancient, antediluvian]
Synonyms of 'antediluvian'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- Bronze Age man,
- bushman,
- cave dweller,
- caveman,
- classical,
- conservative,
- dad,
- dodo,
- elder,
- fogy,
- fossil,
- fossil man,
- fossilized,
- fud,
- fuddy-duddy,
- Gothic,
- granny,
- grown old,
- has-been,
- hoary,
- hominid,
- Hominidae,
- humanoid,
- Iron Age man,
- longhair,
- man of old,
- matriarch,
- medieval,
- Methuselah,
- 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,
- Stone Age man,
- superannuated,
- timeworn,
- traditionalist,
- troglodyte,
- venerable,
- Victorian