antediluvian

3 definitions found

antediluvian - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  antediluvian \an`te*di*lu"vi*an\
     ([a^]n`t[-e]*d[i^]*l[=u]"v[i^]*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.
     [1913 Webster]

antediluvian - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  antediluvian
      adj 1: of or relating to the period before the biblical flood;
             "antediluvian man" [syn: antediluvian, antediluvial]
      2: so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period;
         "a ramshackle antediluvian tenement"; "antediluvian ideas";
         "archaic laws" [syn: antediluvian, antiquated, archaic]
      n 1: any of the early patriarchs who lived prior to the Noachian
           deluge [syn: antediluvian, antediluvian patriarch]
      2: a very old person [syn: ancient, antediluvian]

antediluvian - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  98 Moby Thesaurus words for "antediluvian":
     Bronze Age man, Gothic, Hominidae, Iron Age man, Methuselah,
     Stone Age man, Victorian, aboriginal, aborigine, age-old, aged,
     ancient, ante-bellum, antemundane, anthropoid, antiquated, antique,
     ape-man, archaic, autochthon, back number, before the Fall,
     before the Flood, before the war, bushman, cave dweller, caveman,
     classical, conservative, dad, dodo, elder, fogy, fossil,
     fossil man, fossilized, fud, fuddy-duddy, granny, grown old,
     has-been, hoary, hominid, humanoid, longhair, man of old,
     matriarch, medieval, 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, pre-Aryan, pre-Christian,
     pre-Renaissance, pre-Roman, preadamite, preclassical, precultural,
     prehistoric, prehistoric man, prehuman, prelapsarian,
     premillenarian, premundane, prerevolutionary, preromantic, prewar,
     primate, primitive, protohistoric, protohuman, reactionary,
     regular old fogy, relic, square, starets, stick-in-the-mud,
     superannuated, timeworn, traditionalist, troglodyte, venerable