antediluvian
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- noun
- /ˌæn.tɪ.dɪˈluː.vi.ən/
- Offensive
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- Some people see his fashion sense as antediluvian, reminiscent of styles from decades ago.
Examples
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Many consider him an antediluvian because his views on technology seem stuck in the past.
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It's just so great that the political class antediluvians plan to hold onto their power for as long as they can, and when the total, burning calamity befalls the rest.
Blog text (9) -
Behind the herbs, tinctures flashed, -oleum's, -seed's, each name stranger and more antediluvian than the next.
Fiction book (1997) -
Her grandfather always shares stories that make him sound like an antediluvian from a different era.
Synonyms
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A man who is very old
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A woman who is past middle age
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A person who is much older than most adults
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An old man who behaves in a strange or unusual way
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A joking, slightly rude name for an old man
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A person who is clearly past middle age
Antonyms
Compounds
How Old
Surface Forms
Morphology
antediluvian = diluvian (opaque) = ante + diluv + ian
Adding ante- to diluvian is structurally clear, but the historical Flood reference does not straightforwardly yield the modern sense of 'an extremely old person'.
Etymology
Antediluvian as a noun uses the same Latin parts ante- ('before') and diluvium ('flood') to give the image of a person 'from before the flood'. So calling someone an antediluvian is a playful or critical way to say they are very old or stuck in old ways.