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Synonyms for ancient
ˈeɪn ʃəntan·cient

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Wiktionary2.9 / 7 votes

  1. ancientnoun

    Antonyms:
    modern

  2. ancientnoun

    Having lasted from a remote period; having been of long duration; of great age; very old.

    Antonyms:
    modern

  3. ancientadjective

    Existent or occurring in time long past, usually in remote ages; belonging to or associated with antiquity; old, as opposed to modern.

    Antonyms:
    modern

English Synonyms and Antonyms3.4 / 5 votes

  1. ancient

    Antique refers to an ancient, antiquated to a discarded style. Antique is that which is either ancient in fact or ancient in style. The reference is to the style rather than to the age. We can speak of the antique architecture of a church just built. The difference between antiquated and antique is not in the age, for a Puritan style may be scorned as antiquated, while a Roman or Renaissance style may be prized as antique. The antiquated is not so much out of date as out of vogue. Old-fashioned may be used approvingly or contemptuously. In the latter case it becomes a synonym for antiquated; in the good sense it approaches the meaning of antique, but indicates less duration. We call a wide New England fireplace old-fashioned; a coin of the Cæsars, antique. Quaint combines the idea of age with a pleasing oddity; as, a quaint gambrel-roofed house. Antiquated is sometimes used of persons in a sense akin to superannuated. The antiquated person is out of style and out of sympathy with the present generation by reason of age; the superannuated person is incapacitated for present activities by reason of age. Compare OLD.

    Synonyms:
    antiquated, antique, old-fashioned, quaint, superannuated

    Antonyms:
    fashionable, fresh, modern, modish, new, recent, stylish

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. ancient

    Synonyms:
    old, antiquated, oldfashioned, antique, obsolete, old-time, aged, primeval, primordial, immemorial, time-honored

    Antonyms:
    new, young, modern, juvenile, upstart, fresh, parvenu

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. ancient, antediluviannoun

    a very old person

    Synonyms:
    antediluvian, antediluvian patriarch

    Antonyms:
    present(a), young, immature, future

  2. ancientadjective

    a person who lived in ancient times

    Synonyms:
    antediluvian

    Antonyms:
    future, present(a), immature, young

  3. ancientadjective

    belonging to times long past especially of the historical period before the fall of the Western Roman Empire

    "ancient history"; "ancient civilizations such as those of the Etruscans and Sumerians"; "ancient Greece"

    Antonyms:
    immature, future, present(a), young

  4. ancientadjective

    very old

    "an ancient mariner"

    Antonyms:
    young, future, present(a), immature

Editors Contribution0.0 / 0 votes

  1. antiqued

    antiqued means old fashioned, produced in a former period

    an antiqued door

    Submitted by rinat on June 1, 2017  

Dictionary of English Synonymes3.0 / 1 vote

  1. ancientadjective

    Synonyms:
    old, primitive, pristine, OLDEN, of old time, not modern

  2. ancientadjective

    Synonyms:
    of great age, of long duration

  3. ancientadjective

    Synonyms:
    antiquated, antique, archaic, obsolete, by-gone, old-fashioned, out of fashion, out of date, gone by

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. ancientadjective

    Synonyms:
    old, antiquated, archaic, antique, pristine, primitive, archæan

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How to use ancient in a sentence?

  1. Michael Fradley:

    The looting focuses on an area southwest of the ancient city, presumably an extramural cemetery where tombs may contain grave goods.

  2. Julie Dunne:

    These very small, evocative, vessels give us valuable information on how and what babies were fed thousands of years ago, providing a real connection to mothers and infants in the past, similar vessels, although rare, do appear in other prehistoric cultures( such as Rome and ancient Greece) across the world. Ideally, we'd like to carry out a larger geographic study and investigate whether they served the same purpose.

  3. Karim Hijazi:

    The fact that were seeing something as old as Ramnit show up in WHOs network is a really bad sign. This trojans activity that weve been tracking as it beacons back to the attackers network is just the smoke of what is probably a much bigger fire going on inside their network, it could be a raging inferno on the inside. If something as ancient as Ramnit can get through their defenses, they have much bigger problems. It means newer malware probably doesnt have much trouble slipping in too.

  4. Yishai Fleisher:

    In essence it’s a massive smear campaign in which Israel’s ancient history in this land is systematically erased and replaced with an invented Palestinian narrative. The main target of this campaign are young westerners who are simply too ignorant to fight back with facts.

  5. Phillip Barden:

    Fossilized behavior is exceedingly rare, predation( the act of predator attacking prey) especially so, as paleontologists, we speculate about the function of ancient adaptations using available evidence, but to see an extinct predator caught in the act of capturing its prey is invaluable.


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