Definition of antediluvian in English:

antediluvian

adjective ˌantɪdɪˈluːvɪənˌæn(t)idəˈluviən

1Of or belonging to the time before the biblical Flood.
（《圣经》所记载的）大洪水以前的
gigantic bones of antediluvian animals
大洪水以前动物的巨大骨头。
Example sentencesExamples
- Despite the Jessica accident, tourists still flock to the Galapagos, tempted by a once-in-a-lifetime chance to return the antediluvian stare of a giant tortoise or turn cartwheels with playful sea lions in an underwater ballet.
- Birds did not evolve from massive sauropods or antediluvian, tanklike ankylosaurs or even from the large tyrannosaurs (which do, in fact, branch fairly close to birds on the dinosaur bush).
- In addition, the parallels between the Sumerian and biblical antediluvian data open up the possibility of establishing chronological correlations between the rest of the Kings List and the book of Genesis.
- One even tells its followers that they may relive former lives, back into antediluvian periods.
- You are made to feel like an antediluvian creature or a downright atheist!
- The Cardiff giant is a fake fossil of an antediluvian giant some ten feet high with 21 inch feet.
- Maybe these antediluvian creatures were having a good old natter about the ammonite down the road and then WHAM they got fossilised?
- An antediluvian civilization, thriving and technologically advanced prior to the flood, managed to survive the flood due to their technological prowess.
- Freeman organises his almost overwhelmingly rich subject into thematic chapters, of which the most absorbing discuss the way such artists as John Martin portrayed the antediluvian world as a place of catastrophe or competition.
- The antediluvian myth is one where it is suggested that the ancients lived exceptionally long lives.
- Now, as we drive into the Age of Dinosaurs, we have another choice: we can head north, into Queensland where a few dinosaurs have been found in an antediluvian inland sea and a huge series of river deltas that emptied into it.
Synonyms
before the flood, prehistoric, primeval, primordial, primal, earliest, ancient, early
rare primigenial
1. 1.1humorous Ridiculously old-fashioned.
  〈主幽默〉老掉牙的
  they maintain antediluvian sex-role stereotypes
  他们保持着早就过时的性别角色。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Officials at headquarters either forgot about it, or could not store the information in a useful place because of an antediluvian computer system.
  Flash forward two decades and the documentary section had become a sleepy backwater, with an antediluvian selection committee seemingly oblivious to new currents in documentary film.
  Take a look in the playhouses of some Scottish towns and you can still find the sort of antediluvian performances which used to struggle to get on the bill at Butlins in the 50s.
  Still, the two gurus were making the same point: In no time, today's Net will be an antediluvian relic, replaced by an unimaginably advanced network that controls all communication everywhere.
  If the Fire Brigades Union had more deft leadership, it might have found a way to secure something approaching its pay demand by offering to negotiate its antediluvian work practices.
  Why should Wisconsin women be expected to revere his anti-woman, antediluvian teachings?
  Such methods are, of course, antediluvian now.
  The other almost always requires a delicate dance through a minefield of potential libel, antediluvian prejudice, and post-publication recriminations.
  But I cannot see the House of Lords' decision as some sort of cataclysm which has put a quarter of a century's family jurisprudence into antediluvian obsolescence.
  I bought it from Alan Austin's shop, which was not a shop but a basement with occasional opening hours, in those antediluvian days of 1975 when there were no comic shops, somewhere in South London.
  Part of this is a reflection of inadequate staffing, poor management, and an antediluvian records system; some is a question of attitude, especially among inexperienced, simply ignorant, or poorly led secondary care teams.
  A remnant of the decade that fashion forgot, these antediluvian monstrosities have emerged, gasping in to the 21st Century.
  The ability to touch-type is greatly overrated unless you are the secretary - sorry, PA - to some antediluvian boss who still wants to dictate letters.
  That sounds positively antediluvian now, doesn't it?
  In the new dispensation, religion is being hemmed into a narrow, private world, as if a public commitment to certain beliefs is old-fashioned and antediluvian, like wearing your shirt inside your drawers.
  ‘The newspaper industry prices itself in a way that is at best archaic and at worst antediluvian,’ he says.
  Synonyms
  out of date, outdated, outmoded, old-fashioned, ancient, antiquated, archaic, antique, superannuated, anachronistic, outworn, behind the times, primitive, medieval, quaint, old-fangled, obsolescent, obsolete, prehistoric
  French passé
  informal out of the ark, fossilized, as old as the hills, old hat, creaky, mouldy, clunky
  British informal past its/one's sell-by date
  North American informal horse and buggy, mossy

Origin

Mid 17th century: from ante- + Latin diluvium 'deluge' + -an.

deluge from Late Middle English:
This is from an Old French variant of diluve ‘flood’, from Latin diluvium, from diluere ‘wash away’, also the source of dilute (mid 16th century). The English word antediluvian (mid 17th century) meaning literally ‘before the (biblical) Flood’ is also based on Latin diluvium.

Rhymes

alluvion, diluvian, Peruvian

Definition of antediluvian in US English:

antediluvian

adjectiveˌæn(t)idəˈluviənˌan(t)ēdəˈlo͞ovēən

1attributive Of or belonging to the time before the biblical Flood.
（《圣经》所记载的）大洪水以前的
gigantic bones of antediluvian animals
大洪水以前动物的巨大骨头。
Example sentencesExamples
- In addition, the parallels between the Sumerian and biblical antediluvian data open up the possibility of establishing chronological correlations between the rest of the Kings List and the book of Genesis.
- Maybe these antediluvian creatures were having a good old natter about the ammonite down the road and then WHAM they got fossilised?
- You are made to feel like an antediluvian creature or a downright atheist!
- Birds did not evolve from massive sauropods or antediluvian, tanklike ankylosaurs or even from the large tyrannosaurs (which do, in fact, branch fairly close to birds on the dinosaur bush).
- Now, as we drive into the Age of Dinosaurs, we have another choice: we can head north, into Queensland where a few dinosaurs have been found in an antediluvian inland sea and a huge series of river deltas that emptied into it.
- One even tells its followers that they may relive former lives, back into antediluvian periods.
- Despite the Jessica accident, tourists still flock to the Galapagos, tempted by a once-in-a-lifetime chance to return the antediluvian stare of a giant tortoise or turn cartwheels with playful sea lions in an underwater ballet.
- Freeman organises his almost overwhelmingly rich subject into thematic chapters, of which the most absorbing discuss the way such artists as John Martin portrayed the antediluvian world as a place of catastrophe or competition.
- The antediluvian myth is one where it is suggested that the ancients lived exceptionally long lives.
- The Cardiff giant is a fake fossil of an antediluvian giant some ten feet high with 21 inch feet.
- An antediluvian civilization, thriving and technologically advanced prior to the flood, managed to survive the flood due to their technological prowess.
Synonyms
before the flood, prehistoric, primeval, primordial, primal, earliest, ancient, early
1. 1.1humorous Ridiculously old-fashioned.
  〈主幽默〉老掉牙的
  they maintain antediluvian sex-role stereotypes
  他们保持着早就过时的性别角色。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Still, the two gurus were making the same point: In no time, today's Net will be an antediluvian relic, replaced by an unimaginably advanced network that controls all communication everywhere.
  Officials at headquarters either forgot about it, or could not store the information in a useful place because of an antediluvian computer system.
  Flash forward two decades and the documentary section had become a sleepy backwater, with an antediluvian selection committee seemingly oblivious to new currents in documentary film.
  Part of this is a reflection of inadequate staffing, poor management, and an antediluvian records system; some is a question of attitude, especially among inexperienced, simply ignorant, or poorly led secondary care teams.
  Why should Wisconsin women be expected to revere his anti-woman, antediluvian teachings?
  ‘The newspaper industry prices itself in a way that is at best archaic and at worst antediluvian,’ he says.
  Take a look in the playhouses of some Scottish towns and you can still find the sort of antediluvian performances which used to struggle to get on the bill at Butlins in the 50s.
  Such methods are, of course, antediluvian now.
  I bought it from Alan Austin's shop, which was not a shop but a basement with occasional opening hours, in those antediluvian days of 1975 when there were no comic shops, somewhere in South London.
  In the new dispensation, religion is being hemmed into a narrow, private world, as if a public commitment to certain beliefs is old-fashioned and antediluvian, like wearing your shirt inside your drawers.
  A remnant of the decade that fashion forgot, these antediluvian monstrosities have emerged, gasping in to the 21st Century.
  That sounds positively antediluvian now, doesn't it?
  But I cannot see the House of Lords' decision as some sort of cataclysm which has put a quarter of a century's family jurisprudence into antediluvian obsolescence.
  If the Fire Brigades Union had more deft leadership, it might have found a way to secure something approaching its pay demand by offering to negotiate its antediluvian work practices.
  The other almost always requires a delicate dance through a minefield of potential libel, antediluvian prejudice, and post-publication recriminations.
  The ability to touch-type is greatly overrated unless you are the secretary - sorry, PA - to some antediluvian boss who still wants to dictate letters.
  Synonyms
  out of date, outdated, outmoded, old-fashioned, ancient, antiquated, archaic, antique, superannuated, anachronistic, outworn, behind the times, primitive, medieval, quaint, old-fangled, obsolescent, obsolete, prehistoric

Origin

Mid 17th century: from ante- + Latin diluvium ‘deluge’ + -an.

词汇	antediluvian
释义	Definition of antediluvian in English: antediluvian adjective ˌantɪdɪˈluːvɪənˌæn(t)idəˈluviən 1Of or belonging to the time before the biblical Flood. （《圣经》所记载的）大洪水以前的 gigantic bones of antediluvian animals 大洪水以前动物的巨大骨头。 Example sentencesExamples Despite the Jessica accident, tourists still flock to the Galapagos, tempted by a once-in-a-lifetime chance to return the antediluvian stare of a giant tortoise or turn cartwheels with playful sea lions in an underwater ballet. Birds did not evolve from massive sauropods or antediluvian, tanklike ankylosaurs or even from the large tyrannosaurs (which do, in fact, branch fairly close to birds on the dinosaur bush). In addition, the parallels between the Sumerian and biblical antediluvian data open up the possibility of establishing chronological correlations between the rest of the Kings List and the book of Genesis. One even tells its followers that they may relive former lives, back into antediluvian periods. You are made to feel like an antediluvian creature or a downright atheist! The Cardiff giant is a fake fossil of an antediluvian giant some ten feet high with 21 inch feet. Maybe these antediluvian creatures were having a good old natter about the ammonite down the road and then WHAM they got fossilised? An antediluvian civilization, thriving and technologically advanced prior to the flood, managed to survive the flood due to their technological prowess. Freeman organises his almost overwhelmingly rich subject into thematic chapters, of which the most absorbing discuss the way such artists as John Martin portrayed the antediluvian world as a place of catastrophe or competition. The antediluvian myth is one where it is suggested that the ancients lived exceptionally long lives. Now, as we drive into the Age of Dinosaurs, we have another choice: we can head north, into Queensland where a few dinosaurs have been found in an antediluvian inland sea and a huge series of river deltas that emptied into it. Synonyms before the flood, prehistoric, primeval, primordial, primal, earliest, ancient, early rare primigenial 1.1humorous Ridiculously old-fashioned. 〈主幽默〉老掉牙的 they maintain antediluvian sex-role stereotypes 他们保持着早就过时的性别角色。 Example sentencesExamples Officials at headquarters either forgot about it, or could not store the information in a useful place because of an antediluvian computer system. Flash forward two decades and the documentary section had become a sleepy backwater, with an antediluvian selection committee seemingly oblivious to new currents in documentary film. Take a look in the playhouses of some Scottish towns and you can still find the sort of antediluvian performances which used to struggle to get on the bill at Butlins in the 50s. Still, the two gurus were making the same point: In no time, today's Net will be an antediluvian relic, replaced by an unimaginably advanced network that controls all communication everywhere. If the Fire Brigades Union had more deft leadership, it might have found a way to secure something approaching its pay demand by offering to negotiate its antediluvian work practices. Why should Wisconsin women be expected to revere his anti-woman, antediluvian teachings? Such methods are, of course, antediluvian now. The other almost always requires a delicate dance through a minefield of potential libel, antediluvian prejudice, and post-publication recriminations. But I cannot see the House of Lords' decision as some sort of cataclysm which has put a quarter of a century's family jurisprudence into antediluvian obsolescence. I bought it from Alan Austin's shop, which was not a shop but a basement with occasional opening hours, in those antediluvian days of 1975 when there were no comic shops, somewhere in South London. Part of this is a reflection of inadequate staffing, poor management, and an antediluvian records system; some is a question of attitude, especially among inexperienced, simply ignorant, or poorly led secondary care teams. A remnant of the decade that fashion forgot, these antediluvian monstrosities have emerged, gasping in to the 21st Century. The ability to touch-type is greatly overrated unless you are the secretary - sorry, PA - to some antediluvian boss who still wants to dictate letters. That sounds positively antediluvian now, doesn't it? In the new dispensation, religion is being hemmed into a narrow, private world, as if a public commitment to certain beliefs is old-fashioned and antediluvian, like wearing your shirt inside your drawers. ‘The newspaper industry prices itself in a way that is at best archaic and at worst antediluvian,’ he says. Synonyms out of date, outdated, outmoded, old-fashioned, ancient, antiquated, archaic, antique, superannuated, anachronistic, outworn, behind the times, primitive, medieval, quaint, old-fangled, obsolescent, obsolete, prehistoric French passé informal out of the ark, fossilized, as old as the hills, old hat, creaky, mouldy, clunky British informal past its/one's sell-by date North American informal horse and buggy, mossy Origin Mid 17th century: from ante- + Latin diluvium 'deluge' + -an. deluge from Late Middle English: This is from an Old French variant of diluve ‘flood’, from Latin diluvium, from diluere ‘wash away’, also the source of dilute (mid 16th century). The English word antediluvian (mid 17th century) meaning literally ‘before the (biblical) Flood’ is also based on Latin diluvium. Rhymes alluvion, diluvian, Peruvian Definition of antediluvian in US English: antediluvian adjectiveˌæn(t)idəˈluviənˌan(t)ēdəˈlo͞ovēən 1attributive Of or belonging to the time before the biblical Flood. （《圣经》所记载的）大洪水以前的 gigantic bones of antediluvian animals 大洪水以前动物的巨大骨头。 Example sentencesExamples In addition, the parallels between the Sumerian and biblical antediluvian data open up the possibility of establishing chronological correlations between the rest of the Kings List and the book of Genesis. Maybe these antediluvian creatures were having a good old natter about the ammonite down the road and then WHAM they got fossilised? You are made to feel like an antediluvian creature or a downright atheist! Birds did not evolve from massive sauropods or antediluvian, tanklike ankylosaurs or even from the large tyrannosaurs (which do, in fact, branch fairly close to birds on the dinosaur bush). Now, as we drive into the Age of Dinosaurs, we have another choice: we can head north, into Queensland where a few dinosaurs have been found in an antediluvian inland sea and a huge series of river deltas that emptied into it. One even tells its followers that they may relive former lives, back into antediluvian periods. Despite the Jessica accident, tourists still flock to the Galapagos, tempted by a once-in-a-lifetime chance to return the antediluvian stare of a giant tortoise or turn cartwheels with playful sea lions in an underwater ballet. Freeman organises his almost overwhelmingly rich subject into thematic chapters, of which the most absorbing discuss the way such artists as John Martin portrayed the antediluvian world as a place of catastrophe or competition. The antediluvian myth is one where it is suggested that the ancients lived exceptionally long lives. The Cardiff giant is a fake fossil of an antediluvian giant some ten feet high with 21 inch feet. An antediluvian civilization, thriving and technologically advanced prior to the flood, managed to survive the flood due to their technological prowess. Synonyms before the flood, prehistoric, primeval, primordial, primal, earliest, ancient, early 1.1humorous Ridiculously old-fashioned. 〈主幽默〉老掉牙的 they maintain antediluvian sex-role stereotypes 他们保持着早就过时的性别角色。 Example sentencesExamples Still, the two gurus were making the same point: In no time, today's Net will be an antediluvian relic, replaced by an unimaginably advanced network that controls all communication everywhere. Officials at headquarters either forgot about it, or could not store the information in a useful place because of an antediluvian computer system. Flash forward two decades and the documentary section had become a sleepy backwater, with an antediluvian selection committee seemingly oblivious to new currents in documentary film. Part of this is a reflection of inadequate staffing, poor management, and an antediluvian records system; some is a question of attitude, especially among inexperienced, simply ignorant, or poorly led secondary care teams. Why should Wisconsin women be expected to revere his anti-woman, antediluvian teachings? ‘The newspaper industry prices itself in a way that is at best archaic and at worst antediluvian,’ he says. Take a look in the playhouses of some Scottish towns and you can still find the sort of antediluvian performances which used to struggle to get on the bill at Butlins in the 50s. Such methods are, of course, antediluvian now. I bought it from Alan Austin's shop, which was not a shop but a basement with occasional opening hours, in those antediluvian days of 1975 when there were no comic shops, somewhere in South London. In the new dispensation, religion is being hemmed into a narrow, private world, as if a public commitment to certain beliefs is old-fashioned and antediluvian, like wearing your shirt inside your drawers. A remnant of the decade that fashion forgot, these antediluvian monstrosities have emerged, gasping in to the 21st Century. That sounds positively antediluvian now, doesn't it? But I cannot see the House of Lords' decision as some sort of cataclysm which has put a quarter of a century's family jurisprudence into antediluvian obsolescence. If the Fire Brigades Union had more deft leadership, it might have found a way to secure something approaching its pay demand by offering to negotiate its antediluvian work practices. The other almost always requires a delicate dance through a minefield of potential libel, antediluvian prejudice, and post-publication recriminations. The ability to touch-type is greatly overrated unless you are the secretary - sorry, PA - to some antediluvian boss who still wants to dictate letters. Synonyms out of date, outdated, outmoded, old-fashioned, ancient, antiquated, archaic, antique, superannuated, anachronistic, outworn, behind the times, primitive, medieval, quaint, old-fangled, obsolescent, obsolete, prehistoric Origin Mid 17th century: from ante- + Latin diluvium ‘deluge’ + -an.
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