a. | 1. | Of or characterized by antiquity or archaism; antiquated; obsolescent. |
Adj. | 1. | archaic - so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period; "a ramshackle antediluvian tenement"; "antediluvian ideas"; "archaic laws" Synonyms: antiquated, antediluvian |
2. | archaic - 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" Synonyms: primitive |