'archaic' definitions:
Definition of 'archaic'
From: WordNet
adjective
So extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period; "a ramshackle antediluvian tenement"; "antediluvian ideas"; "archaic laws" [syn: antediluvian, antiquated, archaic]
adjective
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]
Synonyms of 'archaic'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abandoned,
- abjured,
- antediluvian,
- antiquated,
- antique,
- behind the times,
- bygone,
- classical,
- dated,
- deserted,
- discontinued,
- disused,
- done with,
- fossil,
- fossilized,
- Gothic,
- grown old,
- medieval,
- mid-Victorian,
- not worth saving,
- obsolescent,
- obsolete,
- of other times,
- old,
- old-fashioned,
- old-timey,
- old-world,
- on the shelf,
- out,
- out of use,
- out-of-date,
- outdated,
- outmoded,
- outworn,
- passe,
- past use,
- pensioned off,
- petrified,
- relinquished,
- renounced,
- resigned,
- retired,
- superannuate,
- superannuated,
- superseded,
- undeveloped,
- Victorian,
- worn-out