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Definition
very old; or relating to the period before the biblical flood- Someone needs to replace her and her antediluvian ideas.
antediluvian = ancient
- What antediluvian notions you haveTolstoy, Leo -- Anna Karenina
- These were the keys which unlocked the treasures of the antediluvian world for me.Helen Keller -- Story of My Life
- Percy Northumberland Driscoll, brother to the judge, and younger than he by five years, was a married man, and had had children around his hearthstone; but they were attacked in detail by measles, croup, and scarlet fever, and this had given the doctor a chance with his effective antediluvian methods; so the cradles were empty.Mark Twain -- Pudd'nhead Wilson
- antediluvian ideas
- You are antediluvian anyway, with your Nietzsche ideas.London, Jack -- Martin Eden
- antediluvian man
- Is it a bit more absurd than what you advocate, you machine-breaker, returning to the antediluvian ways of your forefathers?London, Jack -- The Iron Heel
- There was something innocent and antediluvian about that broken crock, which quite pleased me.Hugo, Victor -- Notre-Dame de Paris
- "You are right, my dear friend," he said, "yet what you say possesses, shall we call it, a somewhat antediluvian flavour."Oppenheim, E. Phillips -- The Yellow Crayon
- It's—it's antediluvian, I tell you.London, Jack -- Adventure
- The streams were deep and slow, and there were holes of abysmal depth, where any kind and size of antediluvian monster could find a habitat.Stoker, Bram -- The Lair of the White Worm
- a ramshackle antediluvian tenement
- I am an antediluvian, sir.Dickens, Charles -- American Notes for General Circulation
- told his story of woe In an antediluvian tone.Carroll, Lewis -- The Hunting of the Snark
- In those antediluvian pre-jet days Toronto was as far away as Tokyo, and I gave a moan of despair.William Styron -- Sophie's Choice
- After breakfasting on a slice of antediluvian ham and an egg of uncertain age, he continues on his way.Margaret Atwood -- Alias Grace
- "Bones," I replied, "yes, certainly, the bones of antediluvian animals."Jules Verne -- A Journey to the Center of the Earth
- Without actually uttering a single inappropriate word, they displayed an attitude that was so antediluvian it was almost comical.Stieg Larsson -- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
- But go to the old Galleries, and look now at a great Christian painter's portrait of this fish; for he succeeds no better than the antediluvian Hindoo.Herman Melville -- Moby Dick
antediluvian = very old; or relating to the period before the biblical flood
antediluvian = very old (possibly jesting that they are from the period before the biblical flood)