Words Like ARCHAIC
    
   We have put together a list of words that are similar to ARCHAIC.
    
    
    
        
            3 Alternative Words Similar to archaic
   
            
               
            
            
        
       
    
    
        4 examples of archaic
           
        
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        the okapi is a short-necked primitive cousin of the giraffe
    
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        primitive mammals
    
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        antediluvian ideas
    
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        archaic laws
    
       
    
    
        10 definitions of archaic
           
        
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        Of or characterized by antiquity or archaism; antiquated; obsolescent.
    
    
    
 
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        little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type
    
    
    
 
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        so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period
    
    
    
 
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        Of, relating to, or characteristic of a much earlier, often more primitive period, especially one that develops into a classical stage of civilization:  an archaic bronze statuette; Archaic Greece. 
    
    
    
 
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        No longer current or applicable; antiquated:  archaic laws.  See Synonyms at old.
    
    
    
 
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        Of, relating to, or characteristic of words and language that were once in regular use but are now relatively rare and suggestive of an earlier style or period.
    
    
    
 
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        Marked by the characteristics of an earlier period; characterized by archaism; primitive; old-fashioned; antiquated: as, an archaic word or phrase.
    
    
    
 
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        A general term for the prehistoric period intermediate between the earliest period (‘Paleo-Indian’, ‘Paleo-American’, ‘American‐paleolithic’, &c.) of human presence in the Western Hemisphere, and the most recent prehistoric period (‘Woodland’, etc.).
    
    
    
 
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        (A member of) an archaic variety of Homo sapiens.
    
    
    
 
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        Of or characterized by antiquity; old-fashioned, quaint, antiquated.