Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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antediluvian | Yes | Yes | No | No |
archaic | No | Yes | No | No |
antediluvian (noun) | archaic (noun) |
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a very old person | |
any of the early patriarchs who lived prior to the Noachian deluge |
antediluvian (adjective) | archaic (adjective) |
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of or relating to the period before the biblical flood | little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type |
so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period | so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period |