Synonyms 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 The antiquated is not so much out of date as out of vogue.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.

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

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

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1. ancient

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

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

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1. ancient, antediluviannoun

   a very old person

   Synonyms:
   antediluvian, antediluvian patriarch

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

2. ancientadjective

   a person who lived in ancient times

   Synonyms:
   antediluvian

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

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. antiqued

   antiqued means old fashioned, produced in a former period

   an antiqued door

   Submitted by rinat on June 1, 2017  

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:3.0 / 1 vote

1. ancientadjective

   Synonyms:
   old, primitive, pristine, OLDEN, of old time, not modern

2. ancientadjective

   Synonyms:
   of great age, of long duration

3. ancientadjective

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   antiquated, antique, archaic, obsolete, by-gone, old-fashioned, out of fashion, out of date, gone by

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1. ancientadjective

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

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1. List of paraphrases for "ancient":

   old, former, antique, age-old, antigua, ancestral, antiquity, immemorial, archeological, longtime, long-standing, elders, centuries-old, ku, archaic, gu, archaeological, old-growth

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1. Crisanto Rudzö Tseremeywá:

   It's like a bomb, today is 200, tomorrow 1,000, 2,000, 3,000. Because they don't do isolation, they keep doing their ceremonies from ancient times. And my suggestion for the President, and the minister, and embraced by the deputies and senators, that we would build a field hospital.

2. Lee Berger:

   Homo naledi remains one of the most enigmatic ancient human relatives ever discovered, it is clearly a primitive species, existing at a time when previously we thought only modern humans were in South Africa. Its very presence at that time and in this place complexifies our understanding of who did what first concerning the invention of complex stone tool cultures and even ritual practices.

3. Heather Cairns:

   We didn’t have locks, so you can’t help it if you walk in on people if there’s no lock, remember, we’re a bunch of twentysomethings except for me—ancient at 35, so there’s some hormones and they’re raging.

4. Pnina Shor:

   This is a really big discovery, after the Dead Sea Scrolls, this has been the most significant find of an ancient Bible.

5. Zoe Richards:

   Today, the ancient tombs of the royal burial complexes are one of the few parts of the ancient Leluh site that remain intact, much of the historical site is overgrown by the tropical forest and has succumbed to hundreds of years of tropical weather and tidal inundation, and some parts of the site have been dismantled and reused in modern construction.