Antonyms for archaic
ɑrˈkeɪ ɪkar·cha·ic

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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 A word is obsolete which has quite gone out of reputable use; a word is archaic which is falling out of reputable use, or, on the other hand, having been obsolete, is taken up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   ancient, antiquated, disused, obsolescent, obsolete, old, out of date, rare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 WordNetRate these antonyms:4.4 / 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"

   Antonyms:
   late, new, later(a)

   Synonyms:
   antiquated, primitive, antediluvial, antediluvian

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"

   Antonyms:
   late, new, later(a)

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

How to use archaic in a sentence?

1. Donald Trump:

   I think the rules in Congress, and in particular the rules in the Senate, are unbelievably archaic and slow-moving and, in many cases, unfair.

2. Eduardo Espinoza:

   It seems to me that this is a little archaic, and that it is not fair.

3. Capitol Hill:

   It is archaic sexism, i think it's more of this ingrained institutional piece of it that has to be broken down and the only way it can be broken down is by seeing women as your peers and over and over and over again and having those kinds of behaviors not be accepted.

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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