Antonyms for ancient
ˈeɪn ʃəntan·cient

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1. ancientnoun

   Antonyms:
   modern

2. ancientnoun

   Having lasted from a remote period; having been of long duration; of great age; very old.

   Antonyms:
   modern

3. ancientadjective

   Existent or occurring in time long past, usually in remote ages; belonging to or associated with antiquity; old, as opposed to modern.

   Antonyms:
   modern

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1. ancient

   Antique refers to an ancient, antiquated to a discarded style. Antique is that which is either ancient in fact or ancient in style. The reference is to the style rather than to the age. We can speak of the antique architecture of a church just built. The difference between antiquated and antique is not in the age, for a Puritan style may be scorned as antiquated, while a Roman or Renaissance style may be prized as antique. The antiquated is not so much out of date as out of vogue. Old-fashioned may be used approvingly or contemptuously. In the latter case it becomes a synonym for antiquated; in the good sense it approaches the meaning of antique, but indicates less duration. We call a wide New England fireplace old-fashioned; a coin of the Cæsars, antique. Quaint combines the idea of age with a pleasing oddity; as, a quaint gambrel-roofed house. Antiquated is sometimes used of persons in a sense akin to superannuated. The antiquated person is out of style and out of sympathy with the present generation by reason of age; the superannuated person is incapacitated for present activities by reason of age. Compare OLD.

   Antonyms:
   fashionable, fresh, modern, modish, new, recent, stylish

   Synonyms:
   antiquated, antique, old-fashioned, quaint, superannuated

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1. ancient

   Antonyms:
   new, young, modern, juvenile, upstart, fresh, parvenu

   Synonyms:
   old, antiquated, oldfashioned, antique, obsolete, old-time, aged, primeval, primordial, immemorial, time-honored

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1. ancient, antediluviannoun

   a very old person

   Antonyms:
   present(a), young, immature, future

   Synonyms:
   antediluvian, antediluvian patriarch

2. ancientadjective

   a person who lived in ancient times

   Antonyms:
   future, present(a), immature, young

   Synonyms:
   antediluvian

3. ancientadjective

   belonging to times long past especially of the historical period before the fall of the Western Roman Empire

   "ancient history"; "ancient civilizations such as those of the Etruscans and Sumerians"; "ancient Greece"

   Antonyms:
   immature, future, present(a), young

4. ancientadjective

   very old

   "an ancient mariner"

   Antonyms:
   young, future, present(a), immature

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1. ancientadjective

   Synonyms:
   old, antiquated, archaic, antique, pristine, primitive, archæan

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   Submitted by anonymous on December 7, 2020  

How to use ancient in a sentence?

1. Martin Kuhlwilm:

   We have absolutely nothing in terms of bonobo fossils, there is one chimp fossil thats been unearthed thats maybe 400,000 years old, but thats basically it for African great apes. By analyzing living apes, we can get information on extinct ape populations that we cant get from ancient DNA, since there are almost no ancient ape fossils.

2. Andrew Walther:

   ISIS may have been defeated militarily, but ISIS’s goal is the de-Christianization of Iraq, it’s important that these ancient communities survive. If they don’t, even though ISIS has been driven out, they will have won ideologically.

3. Peter Turkson:

   He is not making some political comment about the relative merits of capitalism and communism. He is rather restating ancient biblical teaching, he is pointing to the ominous signs in nature that suggest that humanity may now have tilled too much and kept too little.

4. John Peter Zenger:

   No nation ancient or modern ever lost the liberty of freely speaking, writing, or publishing their sentiments, but forthwith lost their liberty in general and became slaves.

5. Michael McClary:

   Irrigation of the land with seawater desalinated by fusion power is ancient. It's called 'rain'.

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