Antiquated vs. Archaic

Antiquatedadjective

old-fashioned, out of date

Antiquatedadjective

Grown old. Hence: Bygone; obsolete; out of use; old-fashioned; as, an antiquated law.

Antiquatedadjective

so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period;

Archaicnoun

A general term for the prehistoric period intermediate between the earliest period (‘[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleo-Indian Paleo-Indian]’, ‘Paleo-American’, ‘American‐paleolithic’, &c.) of human presence in the Western Hemisphere, and the most recent prehistoric period (‘Woodland’, etc.).

Archaicnoun

(paleoanthropology) (A member of) an archaic variety of Homo sapiens.

Archaicadjective

Of or characterized by antiquity; old-fashioned, quaint, antiquated.

Archaicadjective

(of words) No longer in ordinary use, though still used occasionally to give a sense of antiquity.

Archaicadjective

(archaeology) Belonging to the archaic period

Archaicadjective

Of or characterized by antiquity or archaism; antiquated; obsolescent.

Archaicadjective

so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period;

Archaicadjective

little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type;