Belonging to an early stage of technical development, characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness
English: crude, primitive, rude
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mediaeval, medieval, primitive, age-old, ancient
Common
#1,546 of the corpus · 79.2 per million words · 338,107 occurrences
Adjective
No longer in use
English: disused, obsolete
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Old, no longer valid or fashionable
English: outdated, out-of-date, superannuated
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5 more adjective senses
Belonging to or lasting from times long ago
English: age-old, antique
Bahasa: purba, purbakala, kolot
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So extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period
English: antediluvian, antiquated, archaic
Bahasa: purba, usang, purbakala, lapuk
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Belonging to times long past especially of the historical period before the fall of the Western Roman Empire
English: ancient
Bahasa: lama, tua, purba, bahari, purbakala
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Relating to or belonging to the Middle Ages
English: medieval, mediaeval
Bahasa: Zaman Pertengahan
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As if belonging to the Middle Ages, old-fashioned and unenlightened
English: medieval, mediaeval, gothic
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Noun
People who lived in times long past (especially during the historical period before the fall of the Roman Empire in western Europe)
English: ancients
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A person who belongs to an early stage of civilization
English: primitive, primitive person
Bahasa: primitif
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