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Synonyms for archaic
ɑrˈkeɪ ɪkar·cha·ic

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English Synonyms and Antonyms4.0 / 1 vote

  1. archaic

    Some of the oldest or most ancient words are not obsolete, as father, mother, etc. A word is obsolete which has quite gone out of reputable use; a word is archaic which is falling out of reputable use, or, on the other hand, having been obsolete, is taken up tentatively by writers or speakers of influence, so that it may perhaps regain its position as a living word; a word is rare if there are few present instances of its reputable use. Compare OLD.

    See synonyms for NEW.

    Synonyms:
    ancient, antiquated, disused, obsolescent, obsolete, old, out of date, rare

Princeton's WordNet4.4 / 7 votes

  1. antediluvian, antiquated, archaicadjective

    so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period

    "a ramshackle antediluvian tenement"; "antediluvian ideas"; "archaic laws"

    Synonyms:
    antiquated, primitive, antediluvial, antediluvian

    Antonyms:
    late, new, later(a)

  2. archaic, primitiveadjective

    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"

    Synonyms:
    naive, antiquated, primitive, crude, rude, antediluvian

    Antonyms:
    late, new, later(a)

Editors Contribution5.0 / 1 vote

  1. passe

    having passed its time of use or usefulness

    Submitted by @Muskan on December 28, 2020  

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. archaicadjective

    Synonyms:
    old, ancient, obsolete, antiquated, antique, by-gone, out of use, out of date, out of fashion, old-fashioned

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "archaic":

    antiquated, outdated, obsolete, old-fashioned, outmoded, antique, ancient

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Words popularity by usage frequency

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#371old
#2682rare
#3283ancient
#3910antique
#9920crude
#10591primitive
#12199rude
#12297obsolete
#12662outdated
#18407naive
#29875archaic
#49178antiquated
#70253outmoded
#70951disused
#128612obsolescent
#155230antediluvian

How to use archaic in a sentence?

  1. Heather Lydia Thornhill:

    Galactic light gathers around you fulfilling your body with archaic blessings of the highest rhelms of love.

  2. Sriram Sankararaman:

    We are beginning to learn more about the impact of DNA from archaic hominins on human biology, we now know that both Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA was deleterious in general but there were some genes where this DNA had an adaptive impact. For example, altitude adaptation in Tibetans was likely facilitated by a Denisovan introgressed gene.

  3. Stefano Gabbana and Domenico Dolce:

    Your archaic thinking is out of step with the times, just like your fashions. I shall never wear Dolce and Gabbana ever again. #BoycottDolceGabbana.

  4. Bing Su:

    Ancient DNA technique is a really powerful tool, it tells us quite definitively that the Red Deer Cave people were modern humans instead of an archaic species, such as Neanderthals or Denisovans, despite their unusual morphological features.

  5. Dee Hock:

    The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.


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