antediluvian

Signification (Anglais)

Adj

1. Belonging or pertaining to, or existing in, the time prior to the great flood described in Genesis, or (by extension) to a great or destructive flood or deluge described in other mythologies.
2. (broadly) Of animals and plants: long extinct; prehistoric.
3. (excessive, figuratively, humorous) Of a person or thing: very old; ancient.
4. (excessive, figuratively, humorous) Of attitudes, ideas, etc.: extremely old-fashioned, especially to a laughable extent; antiquated.

Noun

1. A person who lived in the time prior to the great flood described in Genesis, especially one of the biblical patriarchs.
2. (excessive, figuratively, humorous) A very old person.
3. (excessive, figuratively, humorous) A person with extremely old-fashioned attitudes, ideas, etc., especially to a laughable extent; a fogey or old fogey.

Concepts

antédiluvien

archaïque

antidéluvien

Opposé de

elderly, old, adult, grownup

Synonymes

antediluvial

antiquated

old-fashioned

ancient

archaic

antique

antediluvian patriarch

old

🧓

outmoded

out-of-date

passe

patriarch

standpat

stodgy

stuffy

unfashionable

old-hat

unprogressive

prediluvian

before the Deluge

passee

before the Flood

dowdy

frumpish

frumpy

fusty

nonprogressive

Traductions

antediluviano

antidiluviano

vorsintflutlich

antediluviano

antediluvià

antediluviaans

antediluviaal

zeer oud

altmodisch

antediluviano

arcaico

antiek

προκατακλυσμιαίος

παμπάλαιος

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˌæn.tɪ.dɪˈluː.vɪ.ən/

Étymologie (Anglais)

PIE word
*dwís
From ante- (prefix meaning ‘prior to in time’) + Latin dīluvium (“a flood”) + -an (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives; and forming agent nouns), referring the story of Noah’s Ark, through which God rescues Noah, his family, and examples of all the world’s animals from the great flood, which is related in Genesis 6–9 of the Bible. Dīluvium is derived from dīluō (“to wash away”) (from dis- (prefix meaning ‘apart, asunder, in two’) + lavō (“to wash”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *lewh₃- (“to wash”))) + -ium (suffix forming abstract nouns). The English word is analyzable as ante- + diluvian.
Sense 2 (“long extinct”) is from the fact that such animals and plants were originally believed to have perished in the biblical flood referred to above.