首页英语词典archaicarchaic英英释意

archaic

英 [ɑː'keɪɪk] 美[ɑr'keɪk]
  • adj. 古代的;陈旧的;古体的;古色古香的

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"