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Adjective
/ärˈkāik/,
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Very old or old-fashioned,
  1. Very old or old-fashioned
    • - prisons are run on archaic methods
  2. (of a word or a style of language) No longer in everyday use but sometimes used to impart an old-fashioned flavor

  3. Of an early period of art or culture, esp. the 7th–6th centuries bc in Greece
    • - the archaic temple at Corinth
  1. antediluvian: so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period; "a ramshackle antediluvian tenement"; "antediluvian ideas"; "archaic laws"
  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"
  3. (archaicism) archaism: the use of an archaic expression
  4. Archaic is an American comic book series created by writer James Abrams and artist Brett Marting. The series is published through Fenickx Productions LLC and saw its debut at the 2005 Comic-Con International in San Diego. ...
  5. 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. ...
  6. The period following the Paleo period approximately 6500 BC to 1200 BC.  The peoples of the archaic period were hunter gatherers and can be either representational or abstract.
  7. refers to things very, very old and outdated: The Oxford English Dictionary contains many words that are archaic.
  8. a period of ancient Greek history from approximately 750 to 500 BCE.
  9. In American archeology, a cultural stage following the earliest known human occupation in the New World (about 5,500 B.C. to A.D. 100). This stage was characterized by a generalized hunting and gathering lifestyle and seasonal movement to take advantage of a variety of resources.
  10. In archaeology, this term is often used to designate an early period in a culture's history. In Greece it designates the chronological period that preceeded the classical period. ...
  11. Time tested and proven Usage: Animal research is archaic/time tested and proven.
  12. ancient; pertaining to a much earlier time period.
  13. The term used for the early Holocene in the New World, from approximately 6000 b.c. to 1500–1000 b.c.
  14. a New World chronological period transitional between highly mobile hunting and gathering life and settled agricultural life.
  15. These are the residual beliefs and practices that are outmoded but hang on in some ways of speaking or behaving (as when we say, "The sun rose late today."). Archaic practices are sometimes regarded with nostalgia and reverence.
  16. period of time between 10,000 to 1,200 years ago when people began to become less mobile, as populations increased. Archaic peoples had less territory (area) in which to look for food because there were more and more people through time. This meant less and less "open" space. ...
  17. This means old, ancient or it happened very early in life--as in, this archaic issue stems from painful experiences in infancy/early childhood.
  18. The earliest period in pre-European times, when artefacts were of a distinctly East Polynesian type. Period: approximately A.D. 1100-1400 (or 850-450 years B.P.). Compare with Classic.
  19. Language that is obsolete; generally no longer considered appropriate for contemporary poetry. Ex: yore, thee, hence, 'tis, o'er.
  20. relating to an earlier time, usually more primitive; old, usually no longer practiced
  21. In Greek art, the period с 700—480 вс, especially in sculpture, e.g. the kouroi and korai (nude youths and draped girls) from the Acropolis. Figures are stiff and formalized (Egyptian influence) gradually becoming more naturalistic. In vase painting the a. ...
  22. adj. Reflecting the best and most enduring relics of centuries gone before. Said of practices, ideas, and language which reflect a belief that wisdom may be found in thoughts of the past as well as those of the present. A pejorative term.
  23. words are those that are old fashioned and no longer sound natural when used. Example: “I believe thee not”.
  24. A mentally deficient person; an idiot.
  25. The Archaic Period of the Llano Estacado is poorly understood. Several bone beds containing bison and pronghorn antelope remains have been found in the windblown and stream deposits of this stratum at the Landmark. ...