Dictionary Check: antediluvian

"antediluvian" is a valid word!

Scrabble 16 points
Words with Friends 21 points

Definition

adjective

of or relating to the period before the biblical flood

Example: "antediluvian man"
Synonyms:
adjective

so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period

Example: "a ramshackle antediluvian tenement"
Synonyms:
noun

any of the early patriarchs who lived prior to the Noachian deluge

noun

a very old person

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