About The Word Antediluvian

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Antediluvian

Antediluvian Meaning & Definition
Antediluvian Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Antediluvian?

[n] a very old (or old fashioned) person
[n] any of the early patriarchs who lived prior to the Deluge
[adj] so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period; "a ramshackle antediluvian tenement"; "antediluvian ideas"; "archaic laws"
[adj] of or relating to the period before the Biblical flood; "Antediluvian man"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Antediluvian: antediluvial | antediluvian patriarch | antiquated | archaic | old

Related Terms | Find terms related to Antediluvian: aboriginal | aborigine | aged | age-old | ancient | ante-bellum | antemundane | anthropoid | antiquated | antique | ape-man | archaic | autochthon | back number | before the Fall | before the Flood | before the war | Bronze Age man | bushman | cave dweller | caveman | classical | conservative | dad | dodo | elder | fogy | fossil | fossil man | fossilized | fud | fuddy-duddy | Gothic | granny | grown old | has-been | hoary | hominid | Hominidae | humanoid | Iron Age man | longhair | man of old | matriarch | medieval | Methuselah | mid-Victorian | missing link | mossback | of other times | old | old believer | old crock | old dodo | old fogy | old liner | old man | old poop | old woman | old-timer | old-world | patriarch | petrified | pop | pops | preadamite | pre-Aryan | pre-Christian | preclassical | precultural | prehistoric | prehistoric man | prehuman | prelapsarian | premillenarian | premundane | pre-Renaissance | prerevolutionary | pre-Roman | preromantic | prewar | primate | primitive | protohistoric | protohuman | reactionary | regular old fogy | relic | square | starets | stick-in-the-mud | Stone Age man | superannuated | timeworn | traditionalist | troglodyte | venerable | Victorian

See Also | diluvial | diluvian | old person | oldster | patriarch | senior citizen

Antediluvian In Webster's Dictionary

\An`te*di*lu"vi*an\, a. Of or relating to the period before the Deluge in Noah's time; hence, antiquated; as, an antediluvian vehicle. -- n. One who lived before the Deluge.

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