1. So extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period
   "archaic laws"
   - antediluvian, antiquated 
2. Little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type
   "archaic forms of life"
   - primitive

See also: early, old

Encyclopedia: Archaic

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