Archaic
Meaning of Archaic
adjective
- very old or old-fashioned.
prisons are run on archaic methods
mid 19th century: from French archaïque, from Greek arkhaikos, from arkhaios, from arkhē ‘beginning’.
Information about Archaic
- It is an adjective.
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Hyphenation of Archaic
Ar-chaic
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- Archaic is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
Archaic synonyms
Meaning antediluvian:
Meaning primitive:
Meaning no longer produced or used; out of date:
Meaning becoming obsolete:
Meaning belonging to a period other than that being portrayed:
Meaning old-fashioned:
Meaning belonging to an earlier time:
Meaning old-fashioned or outdated:
Meaning (of a post or employee) belonging to a superannuation scheme:
Meaning showing or feeling signs of age or wear:
Meaning having lived for a specified length of time; of a specified age:
Meaning very old or out of date:
Meaning (of a species, family, or other group of animals or plants) having no living members; no longer in existence:
Meaning no longer existing or functioning:
Meaning (of a product) no longer available or produced:
Meaning get rid of (someone or something) as no longer useful or desirable:
Meaning preserved to become a fossil:
Meaning no longer alive:
Archaic antonyms
Meaning produced, introduced, or discovered recently or now for the first time; not existing before:
Meaning relating to the present or recent times as opposed to the remote past:
Anagrams of Archaic
Words that rhyme with Archaic
Trochaic, archaic, overthwartarchaic, pseudoarchaic, trochaic, untrochaic, panomphaic, strophaic, Sabbathaic
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