Synonyms for ancient
ˈeɪn ʃəntan·cient

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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 AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.4 / 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 The antiquated is not so much out of date as out of vogue.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

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1. ancient

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

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

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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

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1. antiqued

   antiqued means old fashioned, produced in a former period

   an antiqued door

   Submitted by rinat on June 1, 2017  

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:3.0 / 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

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1. ancientadjective

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

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1. List of paraphrases for "ancient":

   old, former, antique, age-old, antigua, ancestral, antiquity, immemorial, archeological, longtime, long-standing, elders, centuries-old, ku, archaic, gu, archaeological, old-growth

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1. Jeffrey Thompson:

   We carried out a number of analyses to work out whether Sollasina was more closely related to sea cucumbers or sea urchins, to our surprise, the results suggest it was an ancient sea cucumber. This helps us understand the changes that occurred during the early evolution of the group, which ultimately gave rise to the slug-like forms we see today.

2. Mohammed Reza Pahlavi:

   My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort.

3. Jennifer Glass:

   The big question, and a topic of active scientific debate, is whether the purple bacteria living on the ancient Earth had the ability to protect themselves from UV radiation well enough to inhabit vast expanses of the land surface, like plants do on the modern Earth, the spectral signature of the pigment would be much stronger if the pigmented bacteria covered the land surface.

4. Ken Farley:

   Not every sample Perseverance is collecting will be done in the quest for ancient life, and we don't expect this first sample to provide definitive proof one way or the other, while the rocks located in this geologic unit are not great time capsules for organics, we believe they have been around since the formation of Jezero Crater and incredibly valuable to fill gaps in our geologic understanding of this region -- things we'll desperately need to know if we find life once existed on Mars.

5. Julia Tejada:

   These results, providing the first direct evidence of omnivory in an ancient sloth species, demands reevaluation of the entire ecological structure of ancient mammalian communities in South America, as sloths represented a major component of these ecosystems across the past 34 million years.