archaic
英[ɑː'keɪɪk]
美[ɑr'keɪk]
英英释意
- 1. so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period;
- "a ramshackle antediluvian tenement"
- "antediluvian ideas"
- "archaic laws"
- 2. little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type;
- "archaic forms of life"
- "primitive mammals"
- "the okapi is a short-necked primitive cousin of the giraffe"