Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Archaic \Ar*cha"ic\, a. [Gr. 'archai:ko`s old-fashioned, fr.
'archai^os ancient.]
Of or characterized by antiquity or archaism; antiquated;
obsolescent.
Source : WordNet®
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}]
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: {primitive}]