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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

Gothic, Victorian, abandoned, abjured, antediluvian, antiquated, antique, behind the times, bygone, classical, dated, deserted, discontinued, disused, done with, fossil, fossilized, grown old, medieval, mid-Victorian, not worth saving, obsolescent, obsolete, of other times, old, old-fashioned, old-timey, old-world, on the shelf, out, out of use, out-of-date, outdated, outmoded, outworn, passe, past use, pensioned off, petrified, relinquished, renounced, resigned, retired, superannuate, superannuated, superseded, undeveloped, worn-out

Dictionary Results for archaic:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

archaic
    adj 1: so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier
           period; "a ramshackle antediluvian tenement";
           "antediluvian ideas"; "archaic laws" [syn:
           antediluvian, antiquated, archaic]
    2: 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"
       [syn: archaic, primitive]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Archaic \Ar*cha"ic\, a. [Gr. 'archai:ko`s old-fashioned, fr.
   'archai^os ancient.]
   Of or characterized by antiquity or archaism; antiquated;
   obsolescent.
   [1913 Webster]

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