'antique' definitions:
Definition of 'antique'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Made in or typical of earlier times and valued for its age; "the beautiful antique French furniture"
adjective
Out of fashion; "a suit of rather antique appearance"; "demode (or outmoded) attire"; "outmoded ideas" [syn: antique, demode, ex, old-fashioned, old-hat(p), outmoded, passe, passee]
adjective
Belonging to or lasting from times long ago; "age-old customs"; "the antique fear that days would dwindle away to complete darkness" [syn: age-old, antique]
noun
noun
Any piece of furniture or decorative object or the like produced in a former period and valuable because of its beauty or rarity
verb
Shop for antiques; "We went antiquing on Saturday"
verb
Give an antique appearance to; "antique furniture" [syn: antique, antiquate]
Synonyms of 'antique'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abandoned,
- abiding,
- abjured,
- age-long,
- age-old,
- aged,
- ageless,
- ago,
- ancestral,
- ancient,
- ancient manuscript,
- antediluvian,
- antiquated,
- antiquity,
- archaic,
- archaism,
- artifact,
- auld,
- back number,
- bibelot,
- blown over,
- by,
- bygone,
- bypast,
- cave painting,
- chronic,
- classical,
- collectable,
- conservative,
- constant,
- continuing,
- curio,
- dad,
- dated,
- dateless,
- dead,
- dead and buried,
- deceased,
- defunct,
- departed,
- deserted,
- discontinued,
- disused,
- diuturnal,
- dodo,
- done with,
- durable,
- elapsed,
- elder,
- elderly,
- enduring,
- eolith,
- evergreen,
- expired,
- extinct,
- finished,
- fogy,
- forgotten,
- fossil,
- fossilized,
- fud,
- fuddy-duddy,
- gone,
- gone glimmering,
- gone-by,
- Gothic,
- granny,
- grown old,
- hardy,
- has-been,
- heirloom,
- hoary,
- immemorial,
- immutable,
- intransient,
- inveterate,
- irrecoverable,
- lapsed,
- lasting,
- legendary,
- long-lasting,
- long-lived,
- long-standing,
- long-term,
- longeval,
- longevous,
- longhair,
- macrobiotic,
- matriarch,
- medieval,
- Methuselah,
- mezzolith,
- microlith,
- mid-Victorian,
- mossback,
- neolith,
- no more,
- not worth saving,
- objet d'art,
- obsolescent,
- obsolete,
- of long duration,
- of long standing,
- of old,
- of other times,
- of yore,
- old,
- old as history,
- old as Methuselah,
- old as time,
- old believer,
- old crock,
- old dodo,
- old fogy,
- old liner,
- old man,
- old poop,
- old woman,
- old-fashioned,
- old-time,
- old-timer,
- old-timey,
- old-world,
- olden,
- oldfangled,
- on the shelf,
- out,
- out of date,
- out of use,
- out-of-date,
- outdated,
- outmoded,
- outworn,
- over,
- paleolith,
- passe,
- passed,
- passed away,
- past,
- past use,
- patriarch,
- pensioned off,
- perdurable,
- perduring,
- perennial,
- permanent,
- perpetual,
- persistent,
- persisting,
- petrification,
- petrified,
- petrified forest,
- petrified wood,
- petroglyph,
- plateaulith,
- pop,
- pops,
- rarity,
- reactionary,
- regular old fogy,
- relic,
- relinquished,
- reliquiae,
- remaining,
- remains,
- renounced,
- resigned,
- retired,
- ruin,
- ruins,
- run out,
- sempervirent,
- square,
- stable,
- starets,
- staying,
- steadfast,
- superannuate,
- superannuated,
- superseded,
- survival,
- timeless,
- timeworn,
- tough,
- traditional,
- traditionalist,
- unfading,
- vanished,
- venerable,
- vestige,
- Victorian,
- vital,
- worn-out,
- wound up