archaic

  • (s) so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period
    • a ramshackle antediluvian tenement
    • antediluvian ideas
    • archaic laws
    antiquated, antediluvian,
  • (s) 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
    primitive,

Synonyms

antiquated antediluvian primitive

Words of close approximity

archaicism