Antiquous

Quick meaning: Antiquous is an adjective meaning Having the characteristics of antiquity, without necessarily being ancient.

Meaning

Having the characteristics of antiquity, without necessarily being ancient.

Example Sentences

The animal relics are, however, antiquous and their antiquity may be traced to the remote past.

[…]short bows, cold salutations, supercilious looks, unreturned smiles, distant behaviour, forced familiarity, antiquous expression, accidental justle, unkind repartee usw.

Susie Dalyell—or D’yell, as she prefers to call it, “in the true antiquous way”—is one of Mrs. Oliphant’s own charming little girls, a very Malaprop in her use of long words, and full of innocent palpitations, hopes, and fears.

It has been known that man’s antiquous history happened during the geological phase of pleistocene.[…]It is not only the Lord Jagannath has some tribal antiquous relationship, there are many village godlings worshipped by Hindu castle villagers are likely to be tribal in origin.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include antiquitous, archaic, antique, antiquary, ancient, anticke.

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