Synonyms 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 A word is obsolete which has quite gone out of reputable use; a word is archaic which is falling out of reputable use, or, on the other hand, having been obsolete, is taken up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   ancient, antiquated, disused, obsolescent, obsolete, old, out of date, rare

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1. antediluvian, antiquated, archaicadjective

   so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period

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

   Synonyms:
   antiquated, primitive, antediluvial, antediluvian

   Antonyms:
   late, new, later(a)

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"

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

   Antonyms:
   late, new, later(a)

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1. passe

   having passed its time of use or usefulness

   Submitted by @Muskan on December 28, 2020  

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1. archaicadjective

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   old, ancient, obsolete, antiquated, antique, by-gone, out of use, out of date, out of fashion, old-fashioned

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1. List of paraphrases for "archaic":

   antiquated, outdated, obsolete, old-fashioned, outmoded, antique, ancient

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1. Heather Lydia Thornhill:

   Galactic light gathers around you fulfilling your body with archaic blessings of the highest rhelms of love.

2. Northrop Frye:

   Popular art is normally decried as vulgar by the cultivated people of its time; then it loses favor with its original audience as a new generation grows up; then it begins to merge into the softer lighting of quaint, and cultivated people become interested in it, and finally it begins to take on the archaic dignity of the primitive.

3. Fran Lebowitz:

   Girls who put out are tramps. Girls who don't are ladies. This is, however, a rather archaic usage of the word. Should one of you boys happen upon a girl who doesn't put out, do not jump to the conclusion that you have found a lady. What you have probably found is a lesbian.

4. 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.

5. Capitol Hill:

   It is archaic sexism, i think it's more of this ingrained institutional piece of it that has to be broken down and the only way it can be broken down is by seeing women as your peers and over and over and over again and having those kinds of behaviors not be accepted.