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词汇 archaic
释义 archaic
adjective
uk /ɑːˈkeɪ.ɪk/ us /ɑːrˈkeɪ.ɪk/
of or belonging to an ancient period in history: 古老的,古代的;原始的
an archaic system of government古老的政体
an archaic law/rule/language古代法律/法规/语言
Synonym
ancient
Opposites
modern(PRESENT)
up to date
Compare
antiqueadjective
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

coming from a time in the past
oldBe careful - that clock is very old.
formerHe's a former coworker of mine.
ancientWe need to protect ancient monuments.
archaic"Thee" is an archaic word for "you".
DISAPPROVING
extremely old-fashioned: 早已过时的,十分老式的
Planned in the 1990s, the system was archaic by the time it was implemented.
He has archaic ideas about women.
Synonyms
antediluvianhumorous
antiquated
old-fashionedmainly disapproving
outdated
outmodeddisapproving
superannuatedformal
Opposites
modern(MOST RECENT)
up to date
The Olympics united the fiercely independent city-states that characterized Greece in the archaic age.
They discovered hitherto unknown texts in archaic scripts.
The case study cites the problems in mapping archaic science terminology to appropriate current terms.
How did such bizarre and archaic ideas make their way into educational policy?
The budgetary systems were archaic and over-complicated.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Ancient history: before 500 AD
agora
ancient
ancients
antiquity
Bactrian
charioteer
Delphic
dolmen
Euphrates
gladiator
glyph
mummify
nones
palaeo-
paleographical
Parthenon
pharaoh
scarab
stele
Tigris

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Old or old-fashioned

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archaically

archaic | American Dictionary


archaic
adjective
us/ɑrˈkeɪ·ɪk/
of or belonging to the past; from an ancient period in history:
Some people like to show off by using archaic words.

Examples of archaic


archaic
Both help the modern subject to discover and to appropriate its unconscious and archaic dimension.
The intrusion of archaic forms of narcissism, it is believed, is the source of anxiety disorders in the modern world.
This makes them interesting model organisms for the study of archaic resistance mechanisms during real space exposure.
Evans is able to account for these ' mutations ' by analyzing them as remnants of an archaic gender system.
But how unfair it would be to reduce computer science to these archaic mistakes.
Inflected forms, dialect labels, and status labels (such as "non-standard," "archaic," and the new "offensive") are clear yet unobtrusive.
However, problems arise when the most archaic patterns in the daughter languages are not alike.
Where the seemingly archaic hay cart dominates the foreground, the painting's mid section depicts a synthesis of urban and pre-urban forms.
The whole visit is made in a magical and archaic atmosphere.
Indeed, preliminary inventories of the general linguistic characteristics of the dialects reveals a plethora of archaic features.
As pointed out previously, educated speakers are more change-resisting than uneducated speakers, because of their familiarity with formal and archaic varieties of language.
Most are weakly professionalised, and they have few resources and archaic administrative techniques.
Rather, he identifies them archetypically, as archaic man stands furthest from the mode of consciousness represented by modern, materialistic culture.
All these archaic peculiarities have been reproduced herein.
A deeply moving architectural experience is simultaneously archaic and refined, heavy and light, physical and spiritual.
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