MODERN-DAY Antonyms

• a very old person

• a person who lived in ancient times

• belonging to times long past especially of the historical period before the fall of the Western Roman Empire

• very old

• an elderly man

• any piece of furniture or decorative object or the like produced in a former period and valuable because of its beauty or rarity

• made in or typical of earlier times and valued for its age

• out of fashion

• belonging to or lasting from times long ago

• shop for antiques

• give an antique appearance to

• so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period

• little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type

• past events to be put aside

• well in the past; former

• of or relating to the first significant period of a civilization, culture, area of study, etc.

• of or relating to the study of the literary works of ancient Greece and Rome

• traditional genre of music conforming to an established form and appealing to critical interest and developed musical taste

• of or relating to the languages used by ancient standard authors

• well-known and long-established in form or style

• (physics) relating to or based on concepts that preceded the theories of relativity and quantum mechanics

• of or relating to music in the European tradition, such as symphonies and operas

• of or pertaining to or characteristic of the ancient Greeks and Romans, especially their art, literature, or culture

• marked by features of the immediate and usually discounted past

• of or relating to the study of history

• used of the study of a phenomenon (especially language) as it changes through time

• having once lived or existed or taken place in the real world as distinct from being legendary

• belonging to the past; of what is important or famous in the past

• relating to or belonging to the Middle Ages

• as if belonging to the Middle Ages; old-fashioned and unenlightened

• characteristic of the time of chivalry and knighthood in the Middle Ages

• no longer in use

• old; no longer valid or fashionable

• (used especially of persons) having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age

• of long duration; not new

• past times

• of a very early stage in development

• (used for emphasis) very familiar

• skilled through long experience

• belonging to some prior time

• excellent

• just preceding something else in time or order

• out of fashion

• attractively old-fashioned (but not necessarily authentic)

• relating to time long past

• old; no longer valid or fashionable

• out of fashion

• of or relating to times before written history

• belonging to or existing in times before recorded history

• outdated

• a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization

• a mathematical expression from which another expression is derived

• a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms

• belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness

• little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type

• used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies

• of or created by one without formal training; simple or naive in style

• a fashion reminiscent of the past

• affecting things past

• acceptable for a long time, or having a long history

• honored because of age or long usage