archaic

Modifying Another Word

• somewhat: Meanwhile the Dance class trawlers, with their heavier and somewhat archaic 4 in, guns, occupied themselves with the convoy itself.
• slightly: Although Wade used slightly archaic English and punctuation it makes interesting reading.
• rather: The audio makes the video look rather archaic in comparison.
• too: Moreover, Wycliffe's translation was in Middle English, a form of English that would be too archaic for subsequent readers.
• very: Prior to this point, a very archaic form of Telugu was used.
• now: Origin Chop is a now archaic word which was used in the 17th century to mean exchange.

Modifies a noun

• diction: The decision to use an archaic diction might thus be thought a central part of Spenser's particularly Protestant poetics.
• spelling: The New Cambridge edition is good ( but uses archaic spelling of names ) while sound editions are published by Penguin and Macmillan.
• vocabulary: It defines the latest scientific and technical terms, as well as surveying more unusual, literary or archaic vocabulary.
• language: Others will find that the archaic language enhances the tale.
• word: Origin Chop is a now archaic word which was used in the 17th century to mean exchange.
• script: Friezes and mosaic lined the walls with an unrecognizable archaic script carved underneath.

Used with adjective complement

• seem: In today's electronic world all this would seem archaic.
• look: The audio makes the video look rather archaic in comparison.
• become: Her vocabulary may have become archaic, but her stance was prescient and brave.
• consider: Few old-time musicians can, or want to make a living playing a style now considered archaic by the general public.

Preposition: in

comparison: The audio makes the video look rather archaic in comparison.