archaic
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(satellite adjective) 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" |
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Synonyms: primitive |
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(satellite adjective) so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period; "a ramshackle antediluvian tenement"; "antediluvian ideas"; "archaic laws" |
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Synonyms: antediluvian, antiquated |
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