1. So extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period
   "archaic laws"
   - antediluvian, antiquated 
2. Little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type
   "archaic forms of life"
   - primitive

See also: early, old

Encyclopedia: Archaic

• Papiamento
• Papiamentu
• papier-mâché
• Papilionaceae
• Papilionoideae
• papilla
• papillary
• papillary muscle
• papillary tumor
• papillary tumour
• papillate
• papilledema
• papilliform
• papilloma
• papillon
• papillose
• Papio
• Papio ursinus
• papism
• papist
• papistic
• papistical
• papistry
• papoose
• papooseroot