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archaic - Dictionary definition and meaning for archaic

ARCHAIC

(adj.) 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 : primitive
(adj.) so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period
"a ramshackle antediluvian tenement", "antediluvian ideas", "archaic laws"
synonyms : antediluvian , antiquated
The manuscript was in an archaic tongue which none of them could comprehend. -added by naila_inlas
The antiquated house didn’t appeal to the young couple. -added by naila_inlas
The bulldozers were called in to raze the ramshackle antediluvian tenement. -added by naila_inlas

Selected Mnemonic for archaic

(Tag: Global) Remember with Archive. As we keep very old thing in archive- Archaic is related something very old.
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Mnemonics for archaic

(Tag: ) Archealogy - study of old things.. Archaic - The old things on which we study..
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(Tag: ) The word resembles like archies ...the old archies card are kept with us.
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(Tag: ) Archaic: ARCH comes from the word archaelogy so something related with primitive times;outdated
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(Tag: eng) sounds like a cake which is no longer used
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(Tag: ) archaic : archeological+ick, first word-old second word-express disgust,so outdated..totally it is old and outdated.
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(Tag: Hindi) ar(irani)+chai(tea in hindi)~ Irani chai is the no longer in use
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Origin

Mid-19th century. Via French < Greek arkhaikos < arkhaios "old, ancient" < arkhē "beginning added by bimal03

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