Antediluvian Synonyms and Antonyms

ăntĭ-də-lo͝ovē-ən
Belonging to, existing, or occurring in times long past
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. antiquated
  2. old
  3. archaic
  4. ancient
  5. timeworn
  6. before the Flood
  7. age-old
  8. antique
  9. hoary
  10. antediluvial
  11. olden
  12. old-time
  13. obsolete
  14. out-of-date
  15. venerable
Antonyms:
  1. new
  2. modern
  3. young
  4. up-to-date
Of, existing, or occurring in a distant period
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. ancient
  2. early
  3. primitive
Extremely old or old-fashioned.
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. old
Any of the early patriarchs who lived prior to the Noachian deluge
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. antediluvian patriarch
A very old person
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. ancient
  2. ante-bellum
  3. fud

Words Related to Antediluvian

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Antediluvian Sentence Examples

  • These were the keys which unlocked the treasures of the antediluvian world for me.

  • A characteristic tone pervades the history, even of the antediluvian age, from the creation of Adam; or rather, the history of the earliest times has been written under its influence.

  • The authenticity of his list of 10 antediluvian kings who reigned for 120 sari or 432,000 years, has been partially confirmed by the inscriptions; but his 8 postdiluvian dynasties are difficult to reconcile with the monuments, and the numbers attached to them are probably corrupt.

  • The extracts containing the Babylonian cosmology, the list of the antediluvian kings of Babylonia, and the Chaldaean story of the Deluge, have been shown by the decipherment of the cuneiform texts to have faithfully reproduced the native legends; we may, therefore, conclude that the rest of the History was equally trustworthy.

  • Regarded as an historical work there is a remarkable absence of proportion, and a loss of perspective in the relation between antediluvian, patriarchal, Mosaic and later periods.

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