antediluvian.

1. Relating to the period before the Flood described in the biblical tradition.

2. So old or outdated as to seem to belong to a remote past.

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Words that belong together

• antediluvian figures
• the antediluvian world
• antediluvian patriarchs

On the page

The manuscript arranged its rulers among the antediluvian patriarchs.

His map depicted the antediluvian world according to the chronicle, not modern geology.

Usage notes

Primary category: gothic. Forms: Non-gradable for the biblical period; more antediluvian and most antediluvian occur in the figurative outdated sense. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.