Synonyms for ancient
ˈeɪn ʃəntan·cient

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1. ancientnoun

   Antonyms:
   modern

2. ancientnoun

   Having lasted from a remote period; having been of long duration; of great age; very old.

   Antonyms:
   modern

3. ancientadjective

   Existent or occurring in time long past, usually in remote ages; belonging to or associated with antiquity; old, as opposed to modern.

   Antonyms:
   modern

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1. ancient

   Antique refers to an ancient, antiquated to a discarded style. Antique is that which is either ancient in fact or ancient in style. The reference is to the style rather than to the age. We can speak of the antique architecture of a church just built. The difference between antiquated and antique is not in the age, for a Puritan style may be scorned as antiquated, while a Roman or Renaissance style may be prized as antique. The antiquated is not so much out of date as out of vogue. Old-fashioned may be used approvingly or contemptuously. In the latter case it becomes a synonym for antiquated; in the good sense it approaches the meaning of antique, but indicates less duration. We call a wide New England fireplace old-fashioned; a coin of the Cæsars, antique. Quaint combines the idea of age with a pleasing oddity; as, a quaint gambrel-roofed house. Antiquated is sometimes used of persons in a sense akin to superannuated. The antiquated person is out of style and out of sympathy with the present generation by reason of age; the superannuated person is incapacitated for present activities by reason of age. Compare OLD.

   Synonyms:
   antiquated, antique, old-fashioned, quaint, superannuated

   Antonyms:
   fashionable, fresh, modern, modish, new, recent, stylish

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1. ancient

   Synonyms:
   old, antiquated, oldfashioned, antique, obsolete, old-time, aged, primeval, primordial, immemorial, time-honored

   Antonyms:
   new, young, modern, juvenile, upstart, fresh, parvenu

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1. Ancientadjective

   Synonyms:
   Old, primitive, pristine, antique, antiquated, old-fashioned, obsolete.

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1. ancient, antediluviannoun

   a very old person

   Synonyms:
   antediluvian, antediluvian patriarch

   Antonyms:
   present(a), young, immature, future

2. ancientadjective

   a person who lived in ancient times

   Synonyms:
   antediluvian

   Antonyms:
   future, present(a), immature, young

3. ancientadjective

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

   "ancient history"; "ancient civilizations such as those of the Etruscans and Sumerians"; "ancient Greece"

   Antonyms:
   immature, future, present(a), young

4. ancientadjective

   very old

   "an ancient mariner"

   Antonyms:
   young, future, present(a), immature

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1. antiqued

   antiqued means old fashioned, produced in a former period

   an antiqued door

   Submitted by rinat on June 1, 2017  

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1. ancientadjective

   Synonyms:
   old, primitive, pristine, OLDEN, of old time, not modern

2. ancientadjective

   Synonyms:
   of great age, of long duration

3. ancientadjective

   Synonyms:
   antiquated, antique, archaic, obsolete, by-gone, old-fashioned, out of fashion, out of date, gone by

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1. ancientadjective

   Synonyms:
   old, antiquated, archaic, antique, pristine, primitive, archæan

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1. List of paraphrases for "ancient":

   old, former, antique, age-old, antigua, ancestral, antiquity, immemorial, archeological, longtime, long-standing, elders, centuries-old, ku, archaic, gu, archaeological, old-growth

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How to use ancient in a sentence?

1. Niccolò Machiavelli:

   The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow.

2. Hao Hong:

   China needs commodities and Russia may have to sell it cheap, one ancient Chinese idiom is that when two clams fight, the fisherman stands to benefit.

3. Megan Fahrenbruch:

   Sidney’s mom, Megan Fahrenbruch, told the station. SCIENTISTS FIND POSSIBLE CLUE TO ANCIENT' GHOST SPECIES' OF HUMANS Bonday, who has no experience monster hunting, still agreed to help. He went to the Megan Fahrenbruch home Sunday and helped Sidney investigate. Megan Fahrenbruch just checked under the couch, but he wanted to make sure there were n’t any under the couch cushions, and then they ended up going in the front yard to make sure there was no monster activity in the front yard.

4. Christopher Rollston:

   The fact that the papyrus itself has been carbon-dated to the seventh century BCE certainly does not mean that the writing on the papyrus is ancient.

5. Greger Larson:

   Animal domestication is a rare thing and a lot of evidence is required to overturn the assumption that it happened just once in any species, our ancient DNA evidence, combined with the archaeological record of early dogs, suggests that we need to reconsider the number of times dogs were domesticated independently.