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archaic
adjective
Little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type
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ɑː.ˈkeɪ.ɪk
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adjective
Little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type
“Archaic forms of life”
adjective
So extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period
“A ramshackle antediluvian tenement”
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Archaic forms of life
Primitive mammals
The okapi is a short-necked primitive cousin of the giraffe
A ramshackle antediluvian tenement
Antediluvian ideas
Archaic laws
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