Dictionary Check: archaic

"archaic" is a valid word!

Scrabble 14 points
Words with Friends 15 points

Definition

adjective

so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period

Example: "a ramshackle antediluvian tenement"
adjective

little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type

Example: "archaic forms of life"
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