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archaic
[ ahr-key-ik ]
adjective
- marked by the characteristics of an earlier period; antiquated:
an archaic manner; an archaic notion.
- (of a linguistic form) commonly used in an earlier time but rare in present-day usage except to suggest the older time, as in religious rituals or historical novels. Examples:
thou; wast; methinks; forsooth.
- forming the earliest stage; prior to full development:
the archaic period of psychoanalytic research.
- (often initial capital letter) pertaining to or designating the style of the fine arts, especially painting and sculpture, developed in Greece from the middle 7th to the early 5th century b.c., chiefly characterized by an increased emphasis on the human figure in action, naturalistic proportions and anatomical structure, simplicity of volumes, forms, or design, and the evolution of a definitive style for the narrative treatment of subject matter. Compare classical ( def 6 ), Hellenistic ( def 5 ).
- primitive; ancient; old:
an archaic form of animal life.
archaic
/ ɑːˈɪɪ /
adjective
- belonging to or characteristic of a much earlier period; ancient
- out of date; antiquated
an archaic prison system
- (of idiom, vocabulary, etc) characteristic of an earlier period of a language and not in ordinary use
Usage Note
Derived Forms
- ˈ, adverb
Other 51Թ Forms
- ·i·· adverb
- d··i adjective
- pseudo··i·· adverb
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of archaic1
Example Sentences
District Court Judge James Boasberg ordered the administration officials to halt any future deportations under the archaic and rarely used act, demanding that any deportees in transit be returned to the United States.
"Edison Denisov was a classicist with very subtle yet strict logic. Alfred Schnittke was a romantic. My style could be best described as archaic."
There is something archaic about these massive, welded hunks of steel, that seemed to have their heyday in the Pacific War of the 1940s.
But campaigners say India cannot hide behind archaic laws to deny women bodily agency.
The archaic society was known for the prowess of its soldiers and its brawny militarism.
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