antediluvian as a noun: - 1
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as an adjective: - 1
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antediluvian
noun
1 antediluvian
2 antediluvian
A very old person.
synonym: ancient.
adjective
1 antediluvian
Of or relating to the period before the biblical flood:
— Antediluvian man.
synonym: antediluvial.
Roget 122:
past,
gone,
gone by,
over,
passed away,
bygone,
foregone;
elapsed,
lapsed,
preterlapsed†,
expired,
no more,
run out,
blown over,
has-been,
that has been,
extinct,
antediluvian,
antebellum,
never to return,
gone with the wind,
exploded,
forgotten,
irrecoverable;
obsolete
etc.
(old)
124.
former,
pristine,
quondam,
ci-devant [Fr.],
late;
ancestral.
foregoing;
last,
latter;
recent,
over night;
preterperfect†,
preterpluperfect†.
looking back
etc.
v.;
retrospective,
retroactive;
archaeological
etc.
n..
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2 antediluvian
So extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period:
— A ramshackle antediluvian tenement.
— Antediluvian ideas.
synonyms: antiquated, archaic.
Roget 124:
old,
ancient,
antique;
of long standing,
time-honored,
venerable;
elder,
eldest;
firstborn.
prime;
primitive,
primeval,
primigenous†;
paleolontological,
paleontologic,
paleoanthropological,
paleoanthropic†,
paleolithic,
primordial,
primordinate†;
aboriginal
etc.
(beginning)
66;
diluvian†,
antediluvian;
protohistoric†;
prehistoric;
antebellum,
colonial,
precolumbian;
patriarchal,
preadamite†;
paleocrystic†;
fossil,
paleozoolical,
paleozoic,
preglacial†,
antemundane†;
archaic,
classic,
medieval,
Pre-Raphaelite,
ancestral,
black-letter.
immemorial,
traditional,
prescriptive,
customary,
whereof the memory of man runneth not to the whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary;
inveterate,
rooted.
antiquated,
of other times,
rococo,
of the old school,
after-age,
obsolete;
out of date,
out of fashion,
out of it;
stale,
old-fashioned,
behind the age;
old-world;
exploded;
gone out,
gone by;
passe,
run out;
senile
etc.
128;
time worn;
crumbling
etc.
(deteriorated)
659;
secondhand.
old as the hills,
old as Methuselah,
old as Adam†,
old as history.
[geological eras (list, starting at given number of years bp)]
Archeozoic
[5,000,000,000],
Proterozoic
[1,500,000,000],
Paleozoic
[600,000,000],
Mesozoic
[220,000,000],
Cenozoic
[70,000,000].
[geological periods]
Precambrian,
Cambrian
[600,000,000],
Ordovician
[500,000,000],
Silurian
[440,000,000],
Devonian
[400,000,000],
Mississippian
[350,000,000],
Pennsylvanian
[300,000,000],
Permian
[270,000,000],
Triassic
[220,000,000],
Jurassic
[180,000,000],
Cretaceous
[135,000,000],
Tertiary
[70,000,000],
Paleogene
[70,000,000],
Neocene
[25,0000,000],
Quaternary
[1,000,000].
[geological epochs (list, starting at 70,000,000 years bp)]
Paleocene,
Eocene,
Oligocene,
Miocene,
Pliocene,
Pleistocene,
Recent.
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Polish: archaiczny, starodawny
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