archaic

Adjective

• 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
    

• so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period
  • a ramshackle antediluvian tenement
    
  • antediluvian ideas
    
  • archaic laws
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  primitive , antediluvian , antiquated