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archaic

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archaic in WordNet English dictionary

adjective
  1. so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period
    "a ramshackle antediluvian tenement"; "antediluvian ideas"; "archaic laws"
    antediluvian  antiquated  archaic 
  2. 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"
    archaic  primitive 
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