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It is an adjective that means “extremely old-fashioned or outdated”. For example, “His antediluvian ideas about gender roles had no place in the modern world.”
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antediluvian
adjective
Ancient or antiquated; old; prehistoric.
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His sexual preoccupations appear to belong to an antediluvian, pre-internet age of almost innocent prurience.
In the neophilic world of video-gaming, both are antediluvian.
Mr Erdogan is even said to have given Mr Barzani personal guarantees of defence against aggression by Baghdad.If Turkey would only grant its 14m Kurds some of the rights enjoyed by their cousins in Iraq, the PKK's terrorist tactics and antediluvian Marxist doctrine would surely lose its appeal.
Why then, did your correspondent see distinctly antediluvian water hoses sticking out of the bottom of racks at the IBM booth?
FOR all the attention Egypt's stricken Hosni Mubarak received this week, the death of another antediluvian hardliner in the Arab world's other great power is more significant.
David Cameron, the Conservative Party leader, was wont to bemoan "broken Britain", mired in moral degeneracy, with high rates of teenage pregnancy, low rates of marriage and other less quantifiable breakdowns in the civilised scheme of things.Such antediluvian worries were raked over again on July 13th when Iain Duncan Smith, a former Tory leader, called for an official endorsement of marriage.
When fully loaded, they can weigh 300lb.Though 94% of its population enjoy the occasional flutter on the national lottery, Britain's gambling industry, worth £42 billion a year ($59 billion), is surrounded by an extraordinary thicket of antediluvian legislation.
It then scrapped its antediluvian operating system and developed an entirely new one that has won plaudits from reviewers.
Despite this, manufacturers have claimed (and the FDA has historically concurred) that every subsequent AED is substantially equivalent to its antediluvian ancestors from 1976.
Japan's electricity generators, such as Tokyo Electric Power, will find their margins squeezed; retail and wholesale users will gain.In transport, the famously antediluvian Ministry of Transport announced in late January that it would abolish its rigid capacity and price controls by 2001 at the latest.
Antediluvian though he was, Mr Bugti was quite successful in casting himself as the champion of every angry Baluch.
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