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Definition of archaic



Overview of adj archaic

The adj archaic has 2 senses? (no senses from tagged texts)
1. antediluvian, antiquated, archaic

(so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period; "a ramshackle antediluvian tenement"; "antediluvian ideas"; "archaic laws")

2. archaic, 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")