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adj. 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.

adj. No longer current or applicable; antiquated: archaic laws. See Synonyms at old.

adj. 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.

n. 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.).

n. (A member of) an archaic variety of Homo sapiens.

adj. Of or characterized by antiquity; old-fashioned, quaint, antiquated.

adj. No longer in ordinary use, though still used occasionally to give a sense of antiquity.

adj. Of or characterized by antiquity or archaism; antiquated; obsolescent.

Marked by the characteristics of an earlier period; characterized by archaism; primitive; old-fashioned; antiquated: as, an archaic word or phrase.

adj. little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type

adj. so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period

"The forms of thou are termed archaic by Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language Unabridged: "In this dictionary, the label archaic is affixed to words and senses relatively common in earlier times but infrequently used in present-day English.""

early    old   

the archaic   

archaism    archaically   

antiquated    obsolescent    old-fashioned   

Altaic    Hayek    Mosaic    Passaic    Ptolemaic    algebraic    deltaic    deoxyribonucleic    formulaic    mosaic   

antiquated    obsolete    quaint    medieval    primitive    exotic    poetic    arcane    barbarous    classical