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.