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archaic

/ɑɹˈkeɪ.ɪk/adjective3 syllables

Archaic means: so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period.

Synonyms for archaic8

adjective, as in so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period

antediluvian, antiquated, old

adjective, as in little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type

primitive, early

also used for archaic

dated, obsolete, old fashioned

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What does archaic mean?2

adjective

1

so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period“a ramshackle antediluvian tenement”

2

little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type“archaic forms of life”

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What rhymes with archaic?3

three syllables

mosaic

four syllables

algebraic

five syllables

photovoltaic
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Archaic in a sentence

  • My strife for learning archaic words has no demarcation.frzzl
  • Ziri was using an archaic-looking walkie-talkie.Amastan
  • We inherited many of the genes of archaic humans.Amastan
  • Jonas's house is more archaic-looking than the rest.Amastan
  • Leon was fascinated by the tall archaic brick buildings.Amastan
  • The written form looks like an archaic form of English.AlanF_US
  • Övdalian retains multiple archaic features that Swedish does not.Babelball
  • His ideas are a little archaic.tabular

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