Adjective archaic has 2 senses
  1. antediluvian, antiquated, archaic - so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period; "a ramshackle antediluvian tenement"; "antediluvian ideas"; "archaic laws"
    Antonym: new (indirect, via old)
  2. archaic, primitive - 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"
    Antonyms: late, later (indirect, via early)
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