antediluvian vs patriarch

patriarch vs antediluvian

antediluvian and patriarch both are nouns.

antediluvian is an adjective but patriarch is not an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
antediluvian	Yes	Yes	No	No
patriarch	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, patriarch is a hypernym of antediluvian; that is, patriarch is a word with a broader meaning than antediluvian:

antediluvian: any of the early patriarchs who lived prior to the Noachian deluge
patriarch: any of the early biblical characters regarded as fathers of the human race

antediluvian (noun)	patriarch (noun)
a very old person	the male head of family or tribe
any of the early patriarchs who lived prior to the Noachian deluge	any of the early biblical characters regarded as fathers of the human race
	title for the heads of the Eastern Orthodox Churches (in Istanbul and Alexandria and Moscow and Jerusalem)
	a man who is older and higher in rank than yourself

antediluvian (adjective)	patriarch (adjective)
of or relating to the period before the biblical flood
so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period

Difference between antediluvian and patriarch

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