Word Meanings - ARCHAIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or characterized by antiquity or archaism; antiquated; obsolescent.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ARCHAIC)

• Antique
• Archaic
• ancient
• ancestral
• Grotesque
• Whimsical
• quaint
• old
• burlesque
• archaic
• caricatured
• distorted
• Immemorial
• Primitive
• primordial
• timehonored
• remote
• Obsolete
• Antiquated
• past
• effete
• disused
• old-fashioned
• Primeval
• indigenous
• autochthonic
• aboriginal
• pristine

Related words: (words related to ARCHAIC)

• PRIMORDIALLY
  At the beginning; under the first order of things; originally.
• ABORIGINALLY
  Primarily.
• ANTIQUATION
  The act of making antiquated, or the state of being antiquated. Beaumont.
• PRIMITIVENESS
  The quality or state of being primitive; conformity to primitive style or practice.
• PRIMEVALLY
  In a primeval manner; in or from the earliest times; originally. Darwin.
• OBSOLETENESS
  Indistinctness; want of development. (more info) 1. The state of being obsolete, or no longer used; a state of desuetude.
• ANTIQUATED
  Grown old. Hence: Bygone; obsolete; out of use; old-fashioned; as, an antiquated law. "Antiquated words." Dryden. Old Janet, for so he understood his antiquated attendant was denominated. Sir W. Scott. Syn. -- Ancient; old; antique; obsolete. See
• OBSOLETE
  Not very distinct; obscure; rudimental; imperfectly developed; abortive. Syn. -- Ancient; antiquated; old-fashioned; antique; old; disused; neglected. See Ancient. (more info) 1. No longer in use; gone into disuse; disused; neglected;
• ANTIQUENESS
  The quality of being antique; an appearance of ancient origin and workmanship. We may discover something venerable in the antiqueness of the work. Addison.
• PRIMORDIAL
  A first principle or element.
• ARCHAICAL
  Archaic. -- Ar*cha"ic*al*ly, adv.
• DISTORTIVE
  Causing distortion.
• PRISTINE
  Belonging to the earliest period or state; original; primitive; primeval; as, the pristine state of innocence; the pristine manners of a people; pristine vigor.
• GROTESQUE
  1. A whimsical figure, or scene, such as is found in old crypts and grottoes. Dryden. 2. Artificial grotto-work.
• ANTIQUELY
  In an antique manner.
• PRIMEVAL
  Belonging to the first ages; pristine; original; primitive; primary; as, the primeval innocence of man. "This is the forest primeval." Longfellow. From chaos, and primeval darkness, came Light. Keats.
• BURLESQUER
  One who burlesques.
• CARICATURIST
  One who caricatures.
• DISUSE
  1. To cease to use; to discontinue the practice of. 2. To disaccustom; -- with to or from; as, disused to toil. "Disuse me from . . . pain." Donne.
• BURLESQUE
  1. Ludicrous representation; exaggerated parody; grotesque satire. Burlesque is therefore of two kinds; the first represents mean persons in the accouterments of heroes, the other describes great persons acting and speaking like the basest among
• ACQUAINTANCE
  1. A state of being acquainted, or of having intimate, or more than slight or superficial, knowledge; personal knowledge gained by intercourse short of that of friendship or intimacy; as, I know the man; but have no acquaintance with him. Contract
• ACQUAINTED
  Personally known; familiar. See To be acquainted with, under Acquaint, v. t.
• DISACQUAINT
  To render unacquainted; to make unfamiliar. While my sick heart With dismal smart Is disacquainted never. Herrick.
• VERD ANTIQUE
  A mottled-green serpentine marble. A green porphyry called oriental verd antique.
• INACQUAINTANCE
  Want of acquaintance. Good.
• POSTREMOTE
  More remote in subsequent time or order.
• PREACQUAINTANCE
  Previous acquaintance or knowledge. Harris.
• PREREMOTE
  More remote in previous time or prior order. In some cases two more links of causation may be introduced; one of them may be termed the preremote cause, the other the postremote effect. E. Darwin.
• PREACQUAINT
  To acquaint previously or beforehand. Fielding.
• TERREMOTE
  An earthquake. Gower.
• ABORIGINAL
  1. First; original; indigenous; primitive; native; as, the aboriginal tribes of America. "Mantled o'er with aboriginal turf." Wordsworth. 2. Of or pertaining to aborigines; as, a Hindoo of aboriginal blood.