Definition for Antique (-r)

antique (-r), adj. [L. antīqu-us former, earlier, ancient.] (webplay: ancient, old, time).

  1. Quaint; curious; anachronistic; strange; peculiar because of age.
  2. Obsolete; passé; out-dated; out-moded.
  3. Primeval; archaic; antediluvian; patriarchal; ancestral; from an earlier time.

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