What is the meaning of archaic?

adjective

  • So extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period.
    • usage: "a ramshackle antediluvian tenement"; "antediluvian ideas"; "archaic laws"
  • Little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type.
    • usage: "archaic forms of life"; "primitive mammals"; "the okapi is a short-necked primitive cousin of the giraffe"
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