archaistic

Definition of archaisticnext

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Adjective
  • This legendary experiment in medieval aviation comes to us via 12th-century historian William of Malmesbury in an account written circa 1125, although William neglected to provide future historians with an exact date for the feat.
    Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 14 June 2026
  • The landscape is so wild and the little medieval towns along the way so unspoiled that the two-hour journey seems to take you back in time.
    The Week UK, TheWeek, 14 June 2026
Adjective
  • As prominent Harvard Law professor Laurence Tribe and conservative jurist Michael Luttig argued, the archaic law was dangerously flawed and fundamentally ripe for partisan exploitation.
    Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Time, 9 June 2026
  • The very details that make the genre come alive—the archaic syntax, the outfits, the feelings—are the ones that haven’t survived into the present day or that the writer made up.
    Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 1 June 2026
Adjective
  • Today, some of the most beloved musicals of the American theater can sometimes seem outmoded and vaguely inappropriate, since society’s standards have changed radically in the last 60 years.
    Marla Jo Fisher, Daily News, 4 May 2026
  • But then, the fear that AI could render swaths of the software trade outmoded moved a wave of the savings-for-retirement crowd to demand their money back.
    Shawn Tully, Fortune, 14 Mar. 2026
Adjective
  • Wood beam ceilings and rustic red tile floors adorn almost every room, while the furnishings rely on simple silhouettes and an earthy color palette to blend with the pastoral surroundings without feeling antiquated.
    Lauren Arzbaecher, Architectural Digest, 12 June 2026
  • While that edict seems antiquated with the realities of the House settlement, the settlement doesn’t nullify or supersede appellate precedent.
    Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 10 June 2026
Adjective
  • The brilliance of the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium across north London has only made Arsenal’s home look more dated.
    Dan Sheldon, New York Times, 22 May 2026
  • Click here for dated and tickets.
    SPIN Staff, SPIN, 22 May 2026
Adjective
  • Preckwinkle's team first tackled the out-of-date property tax system by hiring Tyler Technologies under a $30 million dollar contract to upgrade the county's property tax system.
    Chris Tye, CBS News, 10 June 2026
  • Charles also had one out-of-date license to operate a school bus at the time of the incident, investigators stated previously.
    Grace Zokovitch, Boston Herald, 26 Mar. 2026
Adjective
  • If unethical actors can deploy custom frontier AI models to aggressively interrogate smart contracts and find hidden protocol flaws, human-only defensive audits will be rendered obsolete.
    Sean Stein Smith, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
  • Now, new clean technology, known as direct reduction, is fast replacing the old, obsolete blast furnaces that have been polluting our community for more than 100 years.
    Lori Latham, Chicago Tribune, 16 June 2026
Adjective
  • It was given a $31 million overhaul in full-on 18th-century Provençal style by the Airelles Collection in 2014, but managed to emerge classic yet not clichéd, formal but not fusty.
    Matt Ortile, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 June 2026
  • But dismissing it as fusty would be an unfortunate act of self-deprivation.
    Rachel Howard, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Apr. 2026
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“Archaistic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/archaistic. Accessed 20 Jun. 2026.

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