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Textual thesaurus for "archaic"

(adj) primitive

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


(adj) antediluvian, antiquated

so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period

a ramshackle antediluvian tenement; antediluvian ideas; archaic laws