Antediluvian Definition

ăntĭ-də-lo͝ovē-ən
adjective
Occurring or belonging to the era before the Flood.
American Heritage
Of the time before the biblical Flood.
Webster's New World
Extremely old or old-fashioned.
American Heritage
Very old, old-fashioned, or primitive.
Webster's New World

Ancient or antiquated; old; prehistoric.

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noun
An antediluvian person or thing.
Webster's New World
One who lived prior to Noah's Flood.
Wiktionary
Synonyms:
  • antediluvian patriarch
  • ancient
  • fud
  • ante-bellum

Other Word Forms of Antediluvian

Noun

Singular:
antediluvian
Plural:
antediluvians

Origin of Antediluvian

  • From Latin ante- (“before”) +‎ diluvium (“flood”), in reference to the story of Noah’s Ark (Genesis 6–9), an early episode in the Bible.

    From Wiktionary

  • From ante– Latin dīluvium flood diluvial

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Antediluvian Sentence Examples

  • These were the keys which unlocked the treasures of the antediluvian world for me.

  • A characteristic tone pervades the history, even of the antediluvian age, from the creation of Adam; or rather, the history of the earliest times has been written under its influence.

  • The authenticity of his list of 10 antediluvian kings who reigned for 120 sari or 432,000 years, has been partially confirmed by the inscriptions; but his 8 postdiluvian dynasties are difficult to reconcile with the monuments, and the numbers attached to them are probably corrupt.

  • The extracts containing the Babylonian cosmology, the list of the antediluvian kings of Babylonia, and the Chaldaean story of the Deluge, have been shown by the decipherment of the cuneiform texts to have faithfully reproduced the native legends; we may, therefore, conclude that the rest of the History was equally trustworthy.

  • Regarded as an historical work there is a remarkable absence of proportion, and a loss of perspective in the relation between antediluvian, patriarchal, Mosaic and later periods.

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