archaic

Meanings

Plural: archaics

Adjective Satellite

so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period
- "archaic laws"
little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type
- "archaic forms of life"

Noun

The prehistoric period intermediate between the earliest period (‘Paleo-Indian’, ‘Paleo-American’, ‘American‐paleolithic’, etc.) of human presence in the Western Hemisphere, and the most recent prehistoric period (‘Woodland’, etc.).
(A member of) an archaic variety of Homo sapiens.

Adj

Of or characterized by antiquity; old-fashioned, quaint, antiquated.
No longer in ordinary use, though still used occasionally to give a sense of antiquity and are still likely to be understood by well-educated speakers and are found in historical texts.
Belonging to the archaic period.

Origin / Etymology

From archaism (“ancient or obsolete phrase or expression”) or from French archaïque, ultimately from Ancient Greek ἀρχαϊκός (arkhaïkós, “old-fashioned”), from ἀρχαῖος (arkhaîos, “from the beginning, antiquated, ancient, old”), from ἀρχή (arkhḗ, “beginning, origin”), from ἄρχω (árkhō, “I am first”), from ἄρχω (árkhō, “I begin”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ergʰ- (“to begin, rule, command”).

Synonyms

antediluvian, antiquated, dated, obsolete, old fashioned, primitive

Scrabble Score: 14

archaic is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
archaic is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
archaic is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 15

archaic is a valid Words With Friends word