Adjective: archaic aa(r)'key-ikSo extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier periodarchaic laws"; - antediluvian, antiquated Little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral typearchaic forms of life; - primitiveSee also: early, oldEncyclopedia: ArchaicNearestarchaeologicallyarchaeologistarchaeologyarchaeopteryxArchaeopteryx lithographicaarchaeornisArchaeornithesarchaeozoicAr