ALL meanings of archaic
ar·cha·ic
A a - adjective archaic Archaic means extremely old or extremely old-fashioned. 3
- adjective archaic belonging to or characteristic of a much earlier period; ancient 3
- adjective archaic out of date; antiquated 3
- adjective archaic (of an idiom, vocabulary, etc) characteristic of an earlier period of a language and not in ordinary use 3
- adjective archaic belonging to an earlier period; ancient 3
- adjective archaic antiquated; old-fashioned 3
- adjective archaic that has ceased to be used except for special purposes, as in poetry, church ritual, etc. 3
- noun archaic Very old or old-fashioned. 1
- adjective archaic marked by the characteristics of an earlier period; antiquated: an archaic manner; an archaic notion. 1
- adjective archaic (of a linguistic form) commonly used in an earlier time but rare in present-day usage except to suggest the older time, as in religious rituals or historical novels. Examples: thou; wast; methinks; forsooth. 1
- adjective archaic forming the earliest stage; prior to full development: the archaic period of psychoanalytic research. 1
- noun archaic Archaic is used as a label in this dictionary for terms and definitions that were current roughly as late as 1900 but are now employed only as conscious archaisms, as described and exemplified in definition 2 above. An archaic term is generally more recognizable, as when encountered in literature, than one labeled Obsolete. 1
- adjective archaic (often initial capital letter) pertaining to or designating the style of the fine arts, especially painting and sculpture, developed in Greece from the middle 7th to the early 5th century b.c., chiefly characterized by an increased emphasis on the human figure in action, naturalistic proportions and anatomical structure, simplicity of volumes, forms, or design, and the evolution of a definitive style for the narrative treatment of subject matter. Compare classical (def 6), Hellenistic (def 5). 1
- adjective archaic primitive; ancient; old: an archaic form of animal life. 1
- adjective archaic outdated, no longer used 1
- adjective archaic old, old-fashioned 1
- noun archaic (archaeology, US, usually capitalized) A general term for the prehistoric period intermediate between the earliest period (‘Paleo-Indian’, ‘Paleo-American’, ‘American‐paleolithic’, &c.) of human presence in the Western Hemisphere, and the most recent prehistoric period (‘Woodland’, etc.). 0
- noun archaic (paleoanthropology) (A member of) an archaic variety of Homo sapiens. 0
- adjective archaic Of or characterized by antiquity; old-fashioned, quaint, antiquated. 0
- adjective archaic (of words) No longer in ordinary use, though still used occasionally to give a sense of antiquity. 0
- adjective archaic (archaeology) Belonging to the archaic period. 0