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   archaic

   /ɑːˈkeɪɪk/

   adjective

   • 1. very old or old-fashioned: "prisons are run on archaic methods"
   • ▪ (of a word or a style of language) no longer in everyday use but sometimes used to impart an old-fashioned flavour: "a term with a rather archaic ring to it"
   • ▪ of an early period of art or culture, especially the 7th–6th centuries bc in Greece: "the archaic temple at Corinth"

   Word Origin mid 19th century: from French archaïque, from Greek arkhaikos, from arkhaios, from arkhē ‘beginning’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. archaically adverb

   Scrabble Points: 14

   • A

     1

   • R

     1

   • C

     3

   • H

     4

   • A

     1

   • I

     1

   • C

     3

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