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Definition of Archaic

1. Adjective. So extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period. "Archaic laws"

2. Adjective. Little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type. "The okapi is a short-necked primitive cousin of the giraffe"

Definition of Archaic

1. a. Of or characterized by antiquity or archaism; antiquated; obsolescent.

Definition of Archaic

1. Noun. (context: archaeology US usually capitalized) 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.). ¹

2. Noun. (context: paleoanthropology) (A member of) an archaic variety of ''Homo sapiens''. ¹

3. Adjective. Of or characterized by antiquity; old-fashioned, quaint, antiquated. ¹

4. Adjective. (context: of words) No longer in ordinary use, though still used occasionally to give a sense of antiquity. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Archaic

1. pertaining to an earlier time [adj]

Medical Definition of Archaic

1. Ancient; old; in jungian psychology, denoting the ancestral past of mental processes. Origin: G. Archaikos, ancient (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Archaic

archaeon archaeons archaeophyte archaeophytes archaeopteryx archaeopteryxes archaeornis archaeostomatous archaeozoic archaeozoological

archaeozoologist archaeozoologists archaeozoology archaeplastid archaeus archaic (current term) archaic-paralogical thinking archaical archaically archaicism

archaics archaio- archaiopteryx archaise archaised archaises archaising archaism archaisms archaist

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