0 of or belonging to an ancient period in history: --
He has archaic ideas about women.
Planned in the 1990s, the system was archaic by the time it was implemented.
an archaic system of government
1 of or belonging to the past; from an ancient period in history: --
Some people like to show off by using archaic words.
A deeply moving architectural experience is simultaneously archaic and refined, heavy and light, physical and spiritual.
All these archaic peculiarities have been reproduced herein.
Rather, he identifies them archetypically, as archaic man stands furthest from the mode of consciousness represented by modern, materialistic culture.
Most are weakly professionalised, and they have few resources and archaic administrative techniques.
As pointed out previously, educated speakers are more change-resisting than uneducated speakers, because of their familiarity with formal and archaic varieties of language.
Indeed, preliminary inventories of the general linguistic characteristics of the dialects reveals a plethora of archaic features.
The whole visit is made in a magical and archaic atmosphere.
Where the seemingly archaic hay cart dominates the foreground, the painting's mid section depicts a synthesis of urban and pre-urban forms.