Check Dictionary

Find out more about word, its definitions etc.

Valid in these dictionaries

TWL/NWL (Scrabble US/CA/TH)
SOWPODS/CSW (Scrabble UK / ALL)
ENABLE (Words with Friends)

Meaning of archaic

1 definition found

From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  archaic
      adj 1: so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier
             period; "a ramshackle antediluvian tenement";
             "antediluvian ideas"; "archaic laws" [syn:
             {antediluvian}, {antiquated}, {archaic}]
      2: little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral
         type; "archaic forms of life"; "primitive mammals"; "the
         okapi is a short-necked primitive cousin of the giraffe"
         [syn: {archaic}, {primitive}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

Use this dictionary checker to learn more about a word - find out its meaning and also make sure whether that word is a valid word in any of these dictionaries (used by popular word games). Here is the list of dictionaries it checks for :

OCTWL / TWL : The official dictionary for scrabble game in United States, Canada and Thailand.
SOWPODS / CSW : UK and the rest of the world uses this dictionary for various word games including scrabble.
ENABLE - This is the default dictionary for Words with Friends.

The dictionary checker is also good at solving any issue with a disputed word when you're playing scramble games gainst your friends or family members. As a bonus, you also learn new words while having fun!

Back to Word Unscrambler