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Archaic

  1. adjective

    little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type

    “archaic forms of life”

    Similar: primitive

  2. adjective

    so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period

    “a ramshackle antediluvian tenement”

    Similar: antediluvian, antiquated

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