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so extremely old as to seem to belong to an earlier period; or obsolete- When I first started reading Shakespeare, it seemed archaic.
archaic = so extremely old as to seem to belong to an earlier period
- I hope popular forms of psychotherapy will soon be considered archaic.
- Their guns—some were rifles, other pistols—looked . . . archaic, rustic.James Dashner -- The Maze Runner
- GEORGE: I've got the ice . . .
MARTHA: . . . gotten . . .
GEORGE: Got, Martha. Got is perfectly correct . . . it's just a little . . . archaic, like you.Edward Albee -- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - The art historian George Ortiz was once asked by Ernst Langlotz, one of the world's foremost experts on archaic sculpture, whether he wanted to purchase a bronze statuette.Malcolm Gladwell -- Blink
- The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.Dee Hock
- If you've got a fault in the world, Sandy, it is that you are a shade too archaic.Twain, Mark -- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
- It trained his ear and gave him a fine appreciation for noble English; withal it introduced into his mind much that was archaic and obsolete.London, Jack -- Martin Eden
- "Really, you are too archaic for words," said an Oddity in an alley-way.Kipling, Rudyard -- Actions and Reactions
- No, Bunny, it's principally in the shape of archaic ornaments, whose value, I admit, is largely extrinsic.Hornung, E. W. -- Raffles, Further Adventures Of The Amateur Cracksman
- It suggested, rather, some archaic headdress of Persia or Babylon.Chesterton, Gilbert K. -- The Man Who Knew Too Much
- And yet, truly, they are already of but archaic interest.Conrad, Joseph -- The Mirror of the Sea
- archaic forms of life
- archaic laws
- {epochas = archaic Latinized spelling of epochs}Cooper, James Fenimore -- Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief
- What a delightfully archaic term!Terry Pratchett -- Nation
- Torture is such an old-fashioned archaic word.Robert Cormier -- After the First Death
- The buildings, particularly the ones for the prison staff, were clean and contemporary; but the housing for the prisoners was archaic and dirty.Nelson Mandela -- Long Walk to Freedom
- At first Langdon thought he could not read them because Da Vinci wrote his notebooks in an archaic Italian.Dan Brown -- The Da Vinci Code
- We're not going back to a more archaic form of execution," Judge Haig said.Jodi Picoult -- Change of Heart
archaic = so extremely old as to seem to belong to an earlier period; or obsolete
archaic = so extremely old as to seem to belong to an earlier period
archaic = so extremely old as to belong to an earlier period