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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024ar•cha•ic /ɑrˈkeɪɪk/USA pronunciation adj. - out-of-date or outmoded;
antiquated:archaic attitudes. - Linguistics(of a word or phrase) commonly used in an earlier time but now rare:archaic meanings.
ar•cha•i•cal•ly, adv. See -arch-. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024ar•cha•ic (är kā′ik),USA pronunciation adj. - marked by the characteristics of an earlier period;
antiquated:an archaic manner; an archaic notion. - Linguistics(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; methinks;forsooth.
- forming the earliest stage;
prior to full development:the archaic period of psychoanalytic research. - Antiquity, Fine Art(often cap.) pertaining to or designating the style of the fine arts, esp. 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. Cf. classical (def. 6), Hellenistic (def. 5).
- primitive;
ancient;
old:an archaic form of animal life.
- Greek archaïkós antiquated, old-fashioned, equivalent. to archaî(os) old + -ikos -ic
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