ancient

adj

1. primeval, primal, prehistoric, pre-glacial, preadamic, Noachian, Noachiac, Noachical, antediluvian, before the Flood or Deluge; eolithic, Paleolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic; pristine, early, earliest, primitive, primordial, primigenial.

2. antiquated, antique, fossilized, fossil-like, ancient, archaic; superannuated, oldest, age-old, immemorial, remote, old, old as the hills, timeworn, elderly, aged; venerable, gray, hoary, Rare. hoar, patriarchal.

3. atavistic, old-fashioned, old-fogyish, old-time, bygone, unmodern, quaint, old-world; out-of-date, outmoded, passe, obsolete, superseded, obsolescent.

n

4. venerable, patriarch, elder; Inf. old-timer, Methuselah, Inf. oldster, Sl. relic.

5. ancients

n

antiquities, venerables, patriarchs, elders; aboriginals, aborigines; autochthons.