Antonyms for archaic
ɑrˈkeɪ ɪkar·cha·ic

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1. archaic

   Some of the oldest or most ancient words are not obsolete, as father, mother, etc. A word is obsolete which has quite gone out of reputable use; a word is archaic which is falling out of reputable use, or, on the other hand, having been obsolete, is taken up tentatively by writers or speakers of influence, so that it may perhaps regain its position as a living word; a word is rare if there are few present instances of its reputable use. Compare OLD.

   See synonyms for NEW.

   Synonyms:
   ancient, antiquated, disused, obsolescent, obsolete, old, out of date, rare

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:4.4 / 7 votes

1. antediluvian, antiquated, archaicadjective

   so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period

   "a ramshackle antediluvian tenement"; "antediluvian ideas"; "archaic laws"

   Antonyms:
   late, new, later(a)

   Synonyms:
   antiquated, primitive, antediluvial, antediluvian

2. archaic, primitiveadjective

   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"

   Antonyms:
   late, new, later(a)

   Synonyms:
   naive, antiquated, primitive, crude, rude, antediluvian

How to use archaic in a sentence?

1. Bing Su:

   Ancient DNA technique is a really powerful tool, it tells us quite definitively that the Red Deer Cave people were modern humans instead of an archaic species, such as Neanderthals or Denisovans, despite their unusual morphological features.

2. Eduardo Espinoza:

   It seems to me that this is a little archaic, and that it is not fair.

3. Chris Stringer:

   Many temperate areas that currently have little or no archaic fossil human record may now be able to contribute to building a population history of Neanderthals, Denisovans and - who knows ? - yet other human lineages.

4. John Galliano:

   How dare you refer to my beautiful children as 'synthetic'. And shame on you for wagging your judgmental little fingers at IVF ... Your archaic thinking is out of step with the times, just like your fashions.

5. Zhang Hanwen:

   We didn't foresee this result, conservatively, our data refutes some recent claims regarding the role of archaic humans in wiping out prehistoric elephants, ever since big game hunting became a crucial part of our ancestors' subsistence strategy around 1.5 million years ago.

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