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antediluvian

[ an-tee-di-loo-vee-uhn ]

adjective

  1. of or belonging to the period before the Biblical Flood.
  2. very old, old-fashioned, or out of date; antiquated; primitive:

    antediluvian ideas.



noun

  1. a person who lived before the Biblical Flood.
  2. a very old or old-fashioned person or thing.

antediluvian

/ ˌæntɪdɪˈluːvɪən; -daɪ- /

adjective

  1. belonging to the ages before the biblical Flood (Genesis 7, 8)
  2. old-fashioned or antiquated
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. an antediluvian person or thing
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of antediluvian1

First recorded in 1640–50; ante- + Latin īܱ(ܳ) “a flood, deluge” + -an; deluge
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of antediluvian1

C17: from ante- + Latin īܱܳ flood
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As my colleague Amanda Marcotte points out, Johnson is an antediluvian, patriarchal, misogynist with all that that implies and he has devoted his life to re-making America into an explicitly Christian fundamentalist state.

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The rituals were only the start of 10 days of ceremony that will strike some as charming and others as hopelessly antediluvian.

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Of all the units that measure all the things, Scoville heat units have got to be the most antediluvian.

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But the script forces antediluvian clichés on some of the grown-up female characters.

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Microsoft released the first version of Internet Explorer in 1995, the antediluvian era of web surfing dominated by the first widely popular browser, Netscape Navigator.

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