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antediluvian

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[ UK /ˌæntiːdɪlˈuːvi‍ən/ ]
NOUN
  1. any of the early patriarchs who lived prior to the Noachian deluge
  2. a very old person
ADJECTIVE
  1. so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period
    antediluvian ideas
    a ramshackle antediluvian tenement
    archaic laws
  2. of or relating to the period before the biblical flood
    antediluvian man

How To Use antediluvian In A Sentence

  • ‘The newspaper industry prices itself in a way that is at best archaic and at worst antediluvian,’ he says.
  • An embarrassed Steil opened his antediluvian Hotpoint refrigerator and poured water into two discarded Classic Coke cans. OUTCAST
  • Flash forward two decades and the documentary section had become a sleepy backwater, with an antediluvian selection committee seemingly oblivious to new currents in documentary film.
  • Birds did not evolve from massive sauropods or antediluvian, tanklike ankylosaurs or even from the large tyrannosaurs (which do, in fact, branch fairly close to birds on the dinosaur bush).
  • antediluvian" shape of the bat -- no paddings on the legs. Pickwickian Manners and Customs
  • From what cursed old antediluvian, who lived before the invention of spinning-jennies, she learned this craft, Heaven only knows; but there she sits, with her work pinned to her knee — not the pretty taper silken fabric, with which Saint Ronan's Well
  • Maybe these antediluvian creatures were having a good old natter about the ammonite down the road and then WHAM they got fossilised?
  • Well now his self-contradictions will be in plain view, and he'll be compared not with crazy Guilianis and inept Romneys and antediluvian Huckabees, but with an attractive, dynamic young Democrat who will not let McCain corning the "straight talk" market. McCain: Obama Has Nothing In Common With Hamas -- But The Voters Think It Should Be An Issue, Anyway
  • Either our chronology is at fault, or the pyramids must have been constructed by the antediluvian demigods, and have outstood the strength of the surging seas which rolled over the earth. The pillar of fire, or, Israel in bondage
  • A remnant of the decade that fashion forgot, these antediluvian monstrosities have emerged, gasping in to the 21st Century.
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