adjective. Relating to, being, or characteristic of a much earlier, often more primitive period, especially one that develops into a classical stage of civilization.

adjective. No longer current or applicable; antiquated: synonym: old.

adjective. Relating to, being, or characteristic of words and language that were once in regular use but are now relatively rare and suggestive of an earlier style or period.

adjective. undefined

adjective. Relating to or being an early or premodern evolutionary form of an organism or group of organisms.

adjective. Relating to or being an early form of Homo sapiens or a closely related species, such as Neanderthal, that is anatomically distinct from modern humans.

adjective. Relating to a Native American culture prevalent throughout much of North America from about 8000 BC to about 1000 BC, characterized especially by the development of Mesolithic tools and by the increased reliance on smaller game animals as the large Pleistocene mammals became extinct.

noun. A member of an archaic population of Homo.

Marked by the characteristics of an earlier period; characterized by archaism; primitive; old-fashioned; antiquated: as, an archaic word or phrase.

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

noun. A general term for the prehistoric period intermediate between the earliest period (‘Paleo-Indian’, ‘Paleo-American’, ‘American‐paleolithic’, &c.) of human presence in the Western Hemisphere, and the most recent prehistoric period (‘Woodland’, etc.).

noun. (A member of) an archaic variety of Homo sapiens.

adjective. Of or characterized by antiquity; old-fashioned, quaint, antiquated.

adjective. No longer in ordinary use, though still used occasionally to give a sense of antiquity.

adjective. little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type

adjective. so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period

"The forms of thou are termed archaic by Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language Unabridged: "In this dictionary, the label archaic is affixed to words and senses relatively common in earlier times but infrequently used in present-day English.""

the archaic  

early  old  

archaically  archaism  

Altaic  Hayek  Mosaic  Passaic  Ptolemaic  

Celtic  antiquated  antique  arcane  barbarous  

Gothic  Victorian  abandoned  abjured  antediluvian